The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students · HackerPapers discussions

The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students — mentioned by crispyambulance

Sat, 16 May 2020 01:18:28 GMT

Here's another "kitchen-table" project, it's a muon detector. This one uses plastic scintillating material in front of the detector. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01196v2.pdf github: https://github.com/spenceraxani/Desktop-Muon-Detector

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The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students — HN submission

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 03:58:15 GMT

The Desktop Muon Detector: A project for university students

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The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students — mentioned by CamperBob2

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:28:48 GMT

It's a great educational project for a physics class, from what I can tell. The article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01196) is nicely detailed and accessible to undergraduates. Good introduction to instrument design and construction, especially if (as the author suggests) the students are asked to write their own analysis software for it. As far as applications go, the article offers a few ideas: 1. Measure the relative depths of subway stations across the city, using the measured muon rates. 2. Test relativistic time dilation on the cosmic ray flux by measuring the flux at various elevations…

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The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students — mentioned by brudgers

Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:25:50 GMT

The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01196

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