Measurement of Cosmic Muon angular distribution and vertical integrated flux by 2m\(\times\)2m RPC stack at IICHEP-Madurai

The 50 \,kton\, INO-ICAL is a proposed underground high energy physics experiment at Theni, India (\(9^{\circ}57'N\), \(77^{\circ}16'E\)) to study the neutrino oscillation parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. The Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) has been chosen as the active detector eleme...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-06
Main Authors: Pethuraj, S, Datar, V M, Majumder, G, Mondal, N K, Ravindran, K C, Satyanarayana, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angular distribution
Muons
Neutrinos
Resistive plate chambers
Sea level
Vertical distribution
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Summary:The 50 \,kton\, INO-ICAL is a proposed underground high energy physics experiment at Theni, India (\(9^{\circ}57'N\), \(77^{\circ}16'E\)) to study the neutrino oscillation parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. The Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) has been chosen as the active detector element for the ICAL detector. An experimental setup consisting of 12 layers of glass RPCs of size 2\,m\,\(\times\)\,2\,m has been built at IICHEP, Madurai to study the long term stability and performance of RPCs which are produced on a large scale in Indian industry. In this paper, the studies on the performance of RPCs are presented along with the angular distribution of muons at Madurai (\(9^{\circ}56'N,78^{\circ}00'E\) and Altitude \(\approx\)\,160\,m from sea level).
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1706.00901