MITO: a new directional muon telescope
Muon telescopes are instruments devoted to the observation of muons. They are produced in the atmosphere by means of the interaction of cosmic ray and solar energetic particles with atmospheric nuclei. Muons, as cosmic rays that produce them, present non uniform arrival directions and temporal varia...
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ftunivalcala:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/59216 2024-02-11T09:58:13+01:00 MITO: a new directional muon telescope Ayuso de Gregorio, Sindulfo Blanco Ávalos, Juan José García Tejedor, Juan Ignacio Gómez Herrero, Raúl Vrublevskyy, Ivan García Población, Óscar Medina Doctor, José Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Automática Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Física y Matemáticas. Unidad docente Física 2021-02-12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59216 https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020079 eng eng EDP Sciences https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020079 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//CTM2016-77325-C2-1-P/ES/OBSERVATORIO DE RAYOS COSMICOS ANTARTICOS/ORCA info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-107806GB-I00/ES/ORCA, ORCT, MINICALMA Y CALMA. OBSERVANDO DE LA INTERACCION SOL-TIERRA Y EL ENTORNO TERRESTRE. CONTRIBUCION ESPAÑOLA A LA NEUTRON MONITOR DATA BASE/ Ayuso de Gregorio, S. [et al.] 2021, "MITO: a new directional muon telescope", Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, vol. 11, pp. 1-16. http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59216 doi:10.1051/swsc/2020079 AR/0000037047 Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate 11 16 1 2115-7251 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Cosmic ray Instrumentation Muon telesope Física Physics info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivalcala https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020079 2024-01-17T00:23:47Z Muon telescopes are instruments devoted to the observation of muons. They are produced in the atmosphere by means of the interaction of cosmic ray and solar energetic particles with atmospheric nuclei. Muons, as cosmic rays that produce them, present non uniform arrival directions and temporal variations at ground level and, along certain observation directions, could forecast the arrival of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) at the Earth, even earlier than neutron monitors. However, multidirectional muon telescopes are not easily affordable because of their complexity, size and cost. In this work, we present the muon impact tracer and observer (MITO) design concept. It is composed of only two stacked scintillators (1 m2) with an optional lead layer that allows the filtering of unwanted particles depending on the type of application. In the case presented here, a 10 cm lead layer corresponding to the lead of a 3NM64 neutron monitor around which MITO has been built. Eight photomultipliers (PMTs) gather the light emerging from the four lateral sides of the scintillators. MITO has been conceived not only to achieve muon flux registering, but also to register muon arrival directions through the capture and analysis of multiple PMT pulse height data. The number of scintillators and electronic components is reduced, simplifying its design and construction and reducing complexity, volume, weight, power consumption and cost, and thus, achieving a reasonable performance-cost ratio in comparison to other directional telescopes based on two-layer matrices. The first prototype was shipped from Spain to Antarctica where it is now recording data. Some preliminary results are also presented. Agencia Estatal de Investigación Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica e_Buah - Biblioteca Digital de la Universidad de Alcalá Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate 11 13 |
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Cosmic ray Instrumentation Muon telesope Física Physics Ayuso de Gregorio, Sindulfo Blanco Ávalos, Juan José García Tejedor, Juan Ignacio Gómez Herrero, Raúl Vrublevskyy, Ivan García Población, Óscar Medina Doctor, José MITO: a new directional muon telescope |
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Muon telescopes are instruments devoted to the observation of muons. They are produced in the atmosphere by means of the interaction of cosmic ray and solar energetic particles with atmospheric nuclei. Muons, as cosmic rays that produce them, present non uniform arrival directions and temporal variations at ground level and, along certain observation directions, could forecast the arrival of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) at the Earth, even earlier than neutron monitors. However, multidirectional muon telescopes are not easily affordable because of their complexity, size and cost. In this work, we present the muon impact tracer and observer (MITO) design concept. It is composed of only two stacked scintillators (1 m2) with an optional lead layer that allows the filtering of unwanted particles depending on the type of application. In the case presented here, a 10 cm lead layer corresponding to the lead of a 3NM64 neutron monitor around which MITO has been built. Eight photomultipliers (PMTs) gather the light emerging from the four lateral sides of the scintillators. MITO has been conceived not only to achieve muon flux registering, but also to register muon arrival directions through the capture and analysis of multiple PMT pulse height data. The number of scintillators and electronic components is reduced, simplifying its design and construction and reducing complexity, volume, weight, power consumption and cost, and thus, achieving a reasonable performance-cost ratio in comparison to other directional telescopes based on two-layer matrices. The first prototype was shipped from Spain to Antarctica where it is now recording data. Some preliminary results are also presented. Agencia Estatal de Investigación |
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Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Automática Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Física y Matemáticas. Unidad docente Física |
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Ayuso de Gregorio, Sindulfo Blanco Ávalos, Juan José García Tejedor, Juan Ignacio Gómez Herrero, Raúl Vrublevskyy, Ivan García Población, Óscar Medina Doctor, José |
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