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Portable muon detectors tested in the British Cave Science Centre

TRČKA, T. MIKLUŠ, V. MATT, R.

Originální název

Portable muon detectors tested in the British Cave Science Centre

Typ

článek v časopise ve Scopus, Jsc

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Every square metre of the Earth’s surface is bombarded by thousands of muons every minute andthey are able to penetrate many hundreds of metres of rock. This report describes two CosmicWatch muondetectors that have been built for testing in the British Cave Science Centre. Each detector incorporates aslab of plastic scintillator instrumented with a silicon photomultiplier and a printed circuit board, whichamplifies and shapes any signals from the photomultiplier, along with a microcontroller, which measuresthe peak voltage and assigns an event timestamp. Muon counts have been obtained for twenty-four hoursat four monitoring points in different parts of the cave and it can be seen that both the total muon countsand the highest peak voltages correlate strongly with depth below the surface. Although building andtesting these detectors appears to represent a realistic aim for many undergraduate students and enthusiastichobbyists, a number of potential pitfalls are outlined. Finally, it is suggested that muon counts could be usedto approximate depth below the surface in situations where other survey techniques cannot be applied.

Klíčová slova

detector;monitoring

Autoři

TRČKA, T.; MIKLUŠ, V.; MATT, R.

Vydáno

1. 12. 2023

ISSN

1356-191X

Periodikum

Cave and Karst Science

Ročník

50

Číslo

3

Stát

Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Strany od

113

Strany do

118

Strany počet

6

URL

https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85189545121&origin=resultslist

BibTex

@article{BUT186957,
  author="Tomáš {Trčka} and Vladimír {Mikluš} and Rowberry {Matt}",
  title="Portable muon detectors tested in the British Cave Science Centre",
  journal="Cave and Karst Science",
  year="2023",
  volume="50",
  number="3",
  pages="113--118",
  issn="1356-191X",
  url="https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85189545121&origin=resultslist"
}