At the same time, you only had one copy of 30 years of research and you put it in checked luggage??
I hope you recover it. I also hope this inspires a backup plan.
Can it be a chance that customs didn’t allow your luggage to be transferred?
That being said, I’m interested in your use case for the BCI? From browsing the available literature, it looks like it may be able to track certain parameters, but to what end?