The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detector: a self-contained, pocket sized particle detector

A Detector for Muon Tomography

This report describes the conceptual design of a particle detector that could be deployed underground for tracking cosmic-ray muons to enable tomographic reconstruction of the overlying ground and structures. The concept of cosmic-ray muon tomography has been known for a long time but seldom used in practice since the first demonstration. Developments in technology and methods of particle detec...

Muon simulations based on a realistic CBM muon detector system∗

The actual design of the muon detector system consists of 6 hadron absorber layers (iron plates of thickness 20, 20, 20, 30, 35, 100 cm) and 15-18 gaseous tracking chambers located in triplets behind each iron slab. The geometry of the muon system is presented in figure 1: the side view of the full system (top), the side wiew of one gap with detector layers (bottom left), and the side view of o...

Atmospheric muon background in the ANTARES detector

S. Cecchini a , E. Korolkova , A. Margiotta , L. Thompson , on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration (a) Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita’ di Bologna e Sezione INFN di Bologna, viale C. Berti Pichat, 6/2, 40127 Bologna, Italy (b) Also IASF/CNR, Bologna, Italy (c) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom P...

Particle Detector R&d

Recent results on the particle detector R&D for new accelerators are reviewed. Different approaches for the muon systems, hadronic and electromagnetic calorimeters, particle identification devices, and central trackers are discussed. Main emphasis is made on the detectors for the International Linear Collider and Super B-factory. A detailed description of a novel photodetector, a so called Sili...

A Detector Scenario for the Muon Cooling Experiment