Abstract
The study of the variation of fundamental constants through time or in localized regions of space is one of the goals of the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory which consists of multiple detectors over the Earth. In this paper, the various effects which can be potentially identified through cosmic rays detections by CREDO are presented.
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D. A-C. thanks the organizers of the of International Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants 2021 for their hospitality and attention during the on-site conference in Slovakia. The author acknowledges support from the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics in order to attend this conference as well as from the Bogoliubov-Infeld program for collaboration between JINR and Polish Institutions and from the COST actions CA16214 (PHAROS) for networking.
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Alvarez Castillo, D. Studying the Variation of Fundamental Constants at the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory. Phys. Part. Nuclei 53, 825–828 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779622040025
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