Designing and constructing of a two scintillator crystal rotatable telescope for muon flux variation studies

Abdullrahman Alghamdi; Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi; Mohammed M. Almutari

doi:10.1117/12.2059232

23 July 2014 Designing and constructing of a two scintillator crystal rotatable telescope for muon flux variation studies

Abdullrahman Alghamdi, Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi, Mohammed M. Almutari

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Proceedings Volume 9154, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VI; 91542L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2059232
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

A rotatable muon detection telescope with two layers of scintillators was designed and constructed at the physics detector laboratory at KACST, Saudi Arabia. The objective of this system is to study the zenith angle dependence of high energy cosmic ray muons. The system has the flexibility to rotate in all directions to cover the zenith angle from 0- 90⁰ for muon distribution studies, as well as the azimuth angle from 0-359⁰ to observe the geomagnetic field effects on it. In this paper, the designing and the construction works as well as the calibration procedures for the detection system will be given. Some of the preliminarily results and some of the future experiments and possible modifications will be outlined.

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Abdullrahman Alghamdi, Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi, and Mohammed M. Almutari "Designing and constructing of a two scintillator crystal rotatable telescope for muon flux variation studies", Proc. SPIE 9154, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VI, 91542L (23 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2059232

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