Muon Telescope Based on Scintillation Counters

A complex of four modern scintillation cosmic ray muon telescopes, which are part of the cosmic ray spectrograph after A.I. Kuzmin in Yakutsk, is described. Cosmic-ray detectors of this type are placed on the surface of the Earth, as well as in horizontal cuts that were specially dug in permafrost s...

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Published in:Instruments and experimental techniques (New York) 2021-07, Vol.64 (4), p.558-565
Main Authors: Gerasimova, S. K., Gololobov, P. Yu, Grigor’ev, V. G., Zverev, A. S., Starodubtsev, S. A., Egorov, A. G., Neustroev, N. I., Mikheev, A. A., Sorokin, E. E., Karmadonov, A. Ya, Pakhmullov, A. V.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Biology
Charged particles
Cosmic rays
Earth surface
Electrical Engineering
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Medicine
Muons
Permafrost
Physical Chemistry
Physical Devices for Ecology
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Scintillation
Scintillation counters
Telescopes
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Summary:A complex of four modern scintillation cosmic ray muon telescopes, which are part of the cosmic ray spectrograph after A.I. Kuzmin in Yakutsk, is described. Cosmic-ray detectors of this type are placed on the surface of the Earth, as well as in horizontal cuts that were specially dug in permafrost soils of a mine at depths of 7, 20, and 40 m of the water equivalent, and complement the previously created muon telescopes based on SGM-14 gas-discharge counters. New muon telescopes based on SC-301 scintillation counters have a significantly larger area and accuracy of registering muons of atmospheric origin and allow detection of charged particles from 13 different directions. We also report on a system for recording and transmitting data to a database server located at a distance from the Yakutsk cosmic ray station that operates under the control of the PostgreSQL10 system in real time.
ISSN:0020-4412
1608-3180
DOI:10.1134/S0020441221040047