A team of two undergraduate students and their adviser at Missouri Southern State University has built a type of particle detector usually found only at large research organizations like CERN.

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They have modified a Sony digital camera to detect muons created by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. The system cost a little over $500 US. They plan to measure the cosmic muon energy spectrum. I assume that they will be able to measure muons from other sources.

So you don't necessarily have to have big bucks to set up a physics lab.

Bill Gill

C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.