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Catching cosmic ray muons

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Title
Catching cosmic ray muons
Creator(s)
Kakogiannis, Christos
Advisor(s)
Jeffrey Wagner
Date of Original
43972
Description

In my project, I constructed a particle detector in order to detect muons coming from cosmic rays. The detector was designed by MIT under the project called Cosmic Watch: Catch yourself a muon [1]. The assembly of the detector involved soldering various electronic components on the board circuits. In the end, I had a fully-assembled detector which was able to register events. While recording, the event rate was not constant and was not consistent with cosmic rays rates. Therefore, the detector needs further troubleshooting.

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