Measurement of integrated flux of cosmic ray muons at sea level using the INO-ICAL prototype detector

作者：Pal S^*; Acharya B S; Majumder G; Mondal N K; Samuel D; Satyanarayana B

来源：Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2012, (7): 033.

DOI：10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/033

• cosmic ray experiments
• cosmic rays detectors

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration is planning to setup a magnetized Iron-CALorimeter (ICAL) to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations with precise measurements of oscillations parameters. The ICAL uses 50 kton iron as target mass and about 28800 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) of 2 m x 2 m in area as active detector elements. As part of its R%26D program, a prototype detector stack comprising 12 layers of RPCs of 1 m x 1 m in area has been set-up at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) to study the detector parameters using cosmic ray unions. We present here a study of muon flux measurement at sea level and lower latitude. (Site latitude: 18 degrees 54%26apos;N, longitude. 72 degrees 48%26apos;E.)

• 出版日期2012-7