I don't think you have any idea of the staggeringly ginormous amount of data about "cosmic rays" that can be collected, especially at the level of detail this p

I don't think you have any idea of the staggeringly ginormous amount of data about "cosmic rays" that can be collected, especially at the level of detail this paper is about. For example, the Large Hadron Collider generates about 300 GB per SECOND of raw data when it's running. There could be dozens of interesting anomalies in that data that nobody has found so far because they haven't looked at the right parts of it in the right way.