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Buried plastic scintillator muon telescope (BATATA)
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A . May2010, Vol. 617 Issue 1-3, p511-514. 4p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Abstract: Muon telescopes have multiple applications in the area of cosmic ray research. We are currently building such a detector with the objective of comparing the ground penetration of muon vs. electron-gamma signals originated in cosmic ray showers. The detector is composed by a set of three parallel dual-layer scintillator planes, buried at fixed depths ranging from 120 to . Each layer is and is composed by 49 rectangular strips of , oriented at a angle with respect to its companion layer, which gives an pixel of . The scintillators are MINOS extruded polystyrene strips, with an embedded Bicron BC92 wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers, of 1.5mm in diameter. Light is collected by Hamamatsu H7546B multi-anode PMTs of 64 pixels. The front-end (FE) electronics works in counting mode and signals are transmitted to the surface DAQ stage using low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS). Any strip signal above threshold opens a GPS-tagged data collection window. Data, including signal and background, are acquired by a system of FPGA (Spartan 2E) boards and a single-board computer (TS7800). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Volume :
- 617
- Issue :
- 1-3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 50895128
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.10.117