North American Large-scale Time-coincidence Array

Last update: 12/12/2000

NALTA is a consortium of physics research groups and schools in Canada and the USA which are locally organizing school-network based detector arrays to study ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The NALTA consortium was organized at the Workshop on Cosmic Ray Physics with School-Based Detector Networks, held at the University of Washington/Seattle in September, 2000. See the individual group web pages below for details on the scientific motivation, techniques and educational aspects of these projects.

Members

• ALTA (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
• CHICOS (CalTech, UC/Irvine, and  Cal State/Northridge, California, USA)
• CosRayHS (University of Pittsburgh, Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville, Jackson State University, and Florida State University)
• CROP (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA)
• WALTA (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)

Related links

• Auger Project: lots of info on physics issues regarding ultra-high energy cosmic rays
• Quarknet at Fermi National Lab: resource for outreach efforts connecting particle physics and high schools

For further information, contact: J. Wilkes, U. of Washington.