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The development and construction of DUCK detector system is supported by NSF LEAPS-MPS Award 2316097

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PROC(03ACSS2024)001.pdf
Preliminaries of a Photon-based Hardware Random Number Generator Design and Data Analysis Methods
cite as: Dmitriy Beznosko, Keith Driscoll, Fernando Guadarrama, Steven Mai, and Nikolas Thornton. "Preliminaries of a Photon-based Hardware Random Number Generator Design and Data Analysis Methods", Proceedings of 3rd Annual College of STEM Symposium, PROC(03ACSS2024)001, 05/2025 https://sos.clayton.edu/proceedings/003/PROC(03ACSS2024)001.pdf
Abstract. Today, when computer-based devices take over our lives, security becomes of the utmost concern. HRNG, or hardware random number generators, are extensively used in the digital world for security purposes as well as in the science world as a source of high-quality randomness for the models and simulations. Existing HRNG are either extremely costly, or slow and of questionable quality of data. This publication describes a simple design of the HRNG based on the low-number photon absorption by a detector (a photo-multiplier tube of a silicon-based photodetector) that can provide a large volume of high-quality random numbers. The different options of processing and the testing of quality of the generator output are described.

PROC(03ACSS2024)003.pdf
Prototype Setup for the DUCK
cite as: Dmitriy Beznosko, Valeriy Aseykin, Shriya Chakraborti, Alexander Dyshkant, Gerald Harris, Alexander Iakovlev, Oleg Krivosheev, Tatiana Krivosheev, Nicholas Muong, Alexander Ramirez, Vladimir Shiltsev, and Valeriy Zhukov. "Prototype Setup for the DUCK", Proceedings of 3rd Annual College of STEM Symposium, PROC(03ACSS2024)003, 05/2025 https://sos.clayton.edu/proceedings/003/PROC(03ACSS2024)003.pdf
Abstract. This article covers the prototyping activities for the DUCK (Detector system of Unusual Cosmic ray casKades). The primary goal for the DUCK system is to observe the unusual cosmic events reported by other collaborations, and to look at the possibilities of adding innovations to the EAS (Extensive Atmospheric Shower) analysis methods of the EAS disk measurements at the observation level. The prototyping process has helped to choose between various design possibilities in the process of the optimization of the individual detector design.