Terrestrial Muon Flux Measurement at Low Energies for Soft Error Studies

Blackmore, E. W.; Stukel, Matthew; Trinczek, M.; Slayman, C.; Wen, Shi-Jie; Wong, Richard

doi:10.1109/tns.2015.2498103

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“…In particular, these studies have highlighted the differences between the effects of positive and negative muons on SRAM memories, also as a function of their energy. All these experimental results under beam conditions, together with other previous works [15][16][17], show or suggest that in practice only a small fraction of atmospheric muons are likely to be a potential threat to electronics-especially those with low energies, typically below a few MeV. This is because the average stopping power of atmospheric muons is significantly lower than that of protons, alpha particles, or heavy ions.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Figure 7 shows the distribution in number of all light-charged particles and fragment nuclei as a function of their atomic number. For Z = 1, the products include protons (94,235), deuterons (15,381), and tritons (3309); for Z = 2, the products include alpha particles (42,576) and 3 He nuclei (339). Beryllium (Z = 4) appears as the least-produced nucleus (764), followed by oxygen (1275), boron (1467), and fluorine (1620).…”

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Interactions of Low-Energy Muons with Silicon: Numerical Simulation of Negative Muon Capture and Prospects for Soft Errors

Autran,

Munteanu

2024

JNE

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In this paper, the interactions of low-energy muons (E < 10 MeV) with natural silicon, the basic material of microelectronics, are studied by Geant4 and SRIM simulation. The study is circumscribed to muons susceptible to slowdown/stop in the target and able to transfer sufficient energy to the semiconductor to create single events in silicon devices or related circuits. The capture of negative muons by silicon atoms is of particular interest, as the resulting nucleus evaporation and its effects can be catastrophic in terms of the emission of secondary ionizing particles ranging from protons to aluminum ions. We investigate in detail these different nuclear capture reactions in silicon and quantitatively evaluate their relative importance in terms of number of products, energy, linear energy transfer, and range distributions, as well as in terms of charge creation in silicon. Finally, consequences in the domain of soft errors in microelectronics are discussed.

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Interactions of Low-Energy Muons with Silicon: Numerical Simulation of Negative Muon Capture and Prospects for Soft Errors

Autran,

Munteanu

2024

JNE

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“…Atmospheric and terrestrial neutron, proton, μ ± spectra were used. The spectra were evaluated through the FLUKA Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) simulations summarized in section II and benchmarked, against reference data [5] and experimental measurements [26]. Spectra were evaluated in the area of Vancouver (49 • 15' 0" N 123 • 8' 0" W) in the 1 keV-10 TeV energy range (10 −5 eV-10 TeV for neutron) at different atmospheric depths (1033 g/cm 2 , 909 g/cm 2 and 211 g/cm 2 ).…”

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Monte Carlo Evaluation of Single Event Effects in a Deep-Submicron Bulk Technology: Comparison Between Atmospheric and Accelerator Environment

Infantino

Alía

Brügger

2017

IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.

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“…Work in Ref. [20] uses large area plastic scintillator and gives the energy spectra of passing and stopping muons and decay electrons/positrons at ground and at depth. There are several recent works using plastic scintillators to measure muon angle distributions using plastic scintillator bars [21,22].…”

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Measurement of atmospheric muon angular distribution using a portable setup of liquid scintillator bars

Sogarwal,

Shukla

2022

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Measurements of cosmogenic particles at various locations and altitudes are becoming increasingly important in view of worldwide interests in rare signals for search of new physics. In this work, we report measurement of muon zenith angle distributions and integrated flux using a portable setup of four one-meter long liquid scintillator bars. Each scintillator bar is read out from both sides via photomultiplier tubes followed by an 8-channel Digitizer. We exploit energy deposition and excellent timing of scintillators to construct two dimensional tracks and hence angles of charged particles. We use liquid scintillators since they have an added advantage of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) which can be used for detecting muon induced particles. The energy deposition, time window of event and PSD cuts are used to reduce the random as well as correlated backgrounds. In addition, we propose three track quality parameters which are applied to obtain a clean muon spectrum. The zenith angle measurement is performed upto 60 • . With our improved analysis, we demonstrate that a setup of 3 bars can also be used for quicker and precise measurements. The vertical muon flux measured is 66.70 ± 0.36 ± 1.50 /m 2 /sr/s with n = 2.10 ± 0.05 ± 0.25 in cos n θ at the location of Mumbai, India (19 • N, 72.9 • E) at Sea level with a muon momentum above 255 MeV/c. The muon flux has dependence on various factors, the most prominents are latitudes, altitudes and momentum cut of muon so that portable setup like this can be a boon for such measurements at various locations.

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Terrestrial Muon Flux Measurement at Low Energies for Soft Error Studies

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Interactions of Low-Energy Muons with Silicon: Numerical Simulation of Negative Muon Capture and Prospects for Soft Errors

Interactions of Low-Energy Muons with Silicon: Numerical Simulation of Negative Muon Capture and Prospects for Soft Errors

Monte Carlo Evaluation of Single Event Effects in a Deep-Submicron Bulk Technology: Comparison Between Atmospheric and Accelerator Environment

Measurement of atmospheric muon angular distribution using a portable setup of liquid scintillator bars

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