Design and Development of Portable RPC-Based Cosmic Muon Tracker
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| author | Elangovan, Yuvaraj Satyanarayana, B. Shinde, Ravindra Saraf, Mandar Pathaleswar Thoi, S. Thoi Majumder, Gobinda Joshi, S. R. Verma, Piyush Khindri, Honey L, Umesh |
| author_facet | Elangovan, Yuvaraj Satyanarayana, B. Shinde, Ravindra Saraf, Mandar Pathaleswar Thoi, S. Thoi Majumder, Gobinda Joshi, S. R. Verma, Piyush Khindri, Honey L, Umesh |
| contents | Primary cosmic rays when interact with our atmosphere, produce a cascade of lighter secondary particles namely pion, kaon, neutrons, muons, electrons, positrons and neutrinos. Muons are one of the most abundant and easily detectable particles at the ground surface using a large variety of particle detectors. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of 2m x 2m in dimension were developed to be used in large scale as the active detector elements in the Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) which was planned to be built by the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). As a spin-off of this work, a portable stack of eight, one square foot RPC detectors is developed named as Cosmic Muon Tracker (CMT). It could be used to conduct small-scale particle detector experiments as well as training Students. We will discuss design, integration, characterisation and some of the applications of this detector in this paper. |
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| spellingShingle | Design and Development of Portable RPC-Based Cosmic Muon Tracker Elangovan, Yuvaraj Satyanarayana, B. Shinde, Ravindra Saraf, Mandar Pathaleswar Thoi, S. Thoi Majumder, Gobinda Joshi, S. R. Verma, Piyush Khindri, Honey L, Umesh High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors Primary cosmic rays when interact with our atmosphere, produce a cascade of lighter secondary particles namely pion, kaon, neutrons, muons, electrons, positrons and neutrinos. Muons are one of the most abundant and easily detectable particles at the ground surface using a large variety of particle detectors. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of 2m x 2m in dimension were developed to be used in large scale as the active detector elements in the Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) which was planned to be built by the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). As a spin-off of this work, a portable stack of eight, one square foot RPC detectors is developed named as Cosmic Muon Tracker (CMT). It could be used to conduct small-scale particle detector experiments as well as training Students. We will discuss design, integration, characterisation and some of the applications of this detector in this paper. |
| title | Design and Development of Portable RPC-Based Cosmic Muon Tracker |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01764 |