Portable muon detectors tested in the British Cave Science Centre

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985891%3A_____%2F23%3A00583511" target="_blank" >RIV/67985891:_____/23:00583511 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216305:26220/23:PU150060

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376952712_Portable_muon_detectors_tested_in_the_British_Cave_Science_Centre" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376952712_Portable_muon_detectors_tested_in_the_British_Cave_Science_Centre</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Portable muon detectors tested in the British Cave Science Centre

Original language description

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

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cave and Karst Science

ISSN

1356-191X

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Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

113-118

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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