THE SCIENCE — OPEN THE MODEL ASSUMPTIONS＋
How the instrument works
Secondary particles in an extensive air shower deposit energy in layered scintillators. Photodetectors register light, and independently synchronized station clocks enable relative hit timing. Several stations constrain the direction of an approximately planar shower front.
tᵢ = (xᵢ sinθ cosφ + zᵢ sinθ sinφ) / cPosition in metres, θ zenith, φ azimuth; tᵢ seconds relative to the array centre. c = 299,792,458 m/s (textbook vacuum speed of light). This is an idealized plane-front relation, not measured particle timestamps.
Δtₓ = B sinθ cosφ / cB is the east–west baseline, 24 m (illustrative). The engine calculates two station timestamps independently; the separate analytic expression is shown beside the engine result.
σθ ≈ c σₜ / (B cosθ)A small-angle, one-dimensional illustrative estimate, valid away from the horizon and for small timing errors. The user-selected σₜ is an illustrative single-baseline timing uncertainty. It does not represent a full detector fit, shower fluctuations, or an instrument performance guarantee.
Genuine scientific features
Extensive air showers, scintillation, silicon light detection, time synchronization and relative-arrival-time inference.
Engineering-inspired reconstruction
Inspectable layered detectors, light guides, readout crates, cable trays, service platforms and distributed acquisition.
Simplified educational representation
Flat shower front; air-shower development, stochastic detector responses, wavefront curvature, scattering, atmospheric effects and reconstruction biases omitted.
Speculative design elements
Original enclosure geometry, modular gantry arrangement, surface markings and exhibit lighting have no reference-facility specifications.
The moving particle tracks and detector flashes are illustrative animation, not a validated Monte Carlo, shower simulation, or time-scaled acquisition replay. All device dimensions and timing settings are illustrative unless explicitly labelled textbook.
Illustrative design, not affiliated with any real institution or manufacturer.