CHICOS (California HIgh school Cosmic ray ObServatory) is a collaborative project involving Caltech, Cal State Northridge, and local high school physics teachers to site an array of particle detectors at high schools in the Los Angeles area. The array will operate as a coordinated network and will be capable of detecting and characterizing a sample of the highest energy elementary particles ever observed. The project will offer students and teachers in local high schools a unique opportunity to collaborate with researchers at Caltech and address fundamental issues at the forefront of present-day astrophysics and particle physics.
