The Effect of Some Meteorological Parameters on the Cosmic Ray Muons detected by KACST detector

Maghrabi, Abdullrahman; Aldosary, A.F.

doi:10.22323/1.301.0062

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“…Other effects involving humidity or gravitational effects were also mentioned in [2]. In the last years a few contributions on the topic [4][5][6][7][8] were presented exploiting different instrumentations to explore the correlation between muon counts and atmospheric parameters.…”

Section: The Atmospheric Effects On Cosmic Raysmentioning

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Educational outreach activities on cosmic rays: investigate the correlation between muon counts and atmospheric parameters

Miceli,

Degasperi,

Doro

et al. 2024

Proceedings of XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics — PoS(TAUP2023)

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Cosmic rays are energetic, subatomic particles constantly reaching the Earth atmosphere from all directions. Several technological tools currently available can be used to introduce the students to research activities in the particle physics field. The Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL) of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) host a muon telescope. This telescope is formed by plastic scintillators and silicon photomultipliers, mostly used for outreach purposes during the International Cosmic Day (ICD). It is well known that local atmospheric parameters affect the rate of muons reaching the Earth's surface. In this contribution, we, along with high school and bachelor students in Physics at the University of Padova, investigate the anticorrelation between muon counts and atmospheric pressure. This correlation was measured with the muon telescope in LNL using the data collected in 2022 and 2023. The results from our analysis confirm the presence of a significant anticorrelation. Further analyses with a larger datasample allow us to improve the precision of the result, as well as possibly investigate other atmospheric-related correlations, such as with temperature and humidity and the variation in time of these correlations. In addition, we bought a new educational tool: a Cosmic Hunter detector developed by the CAEN group. We are currently testing the instrument performances and we plan to use this instrument to confirm our results and explore new possible educational activities for students.

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Section: The Atmospheric Effects On Cosmic Raysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Educational outreach activities on cosmic rays: investigate the correlation between muon counts and atmospheric parameters

Miceli,

Degasperi,

Doro

et al. 2024

Proceedings of XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics — PoS(TAUP2023)

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Testing a novel sensor design to jointly measure cosmic-ray neutrons, muons and gamma rays for non-invasive soil moisture estimation

Gianessi,

Polo,

Stevanato

et al. 2024

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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Abstract. Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has emerged as a reliable method for soil moisture and snow estimation. However, the applicability of this method beyond research has been limited due to, among others, the use of relatively large and expensive sensors. This paper presents the tests conducted on a new scintillator-based sensor especially designed to jointly measure neutron counts, muons and total gamma rays. The neutron signal is first compared against two conventional gas-tube-based CRNS sensors at two locations. The estimated soil moisture is further assessed at four agricultural sites, based on gravimetric soil moisture collected within the sensor footprint. Muon fluxes are compared to the incoming neutron variability measured at a neutron monitoring station and total gammas counts are compared to the signal detected by a gamma ray spectrometer. The results show that the neutron dynamic detected by the new scintillator-based CRNS sensor is well in agreement with conventional CRNS sensors. The derived soil moisture also agreed well with the gravimetric soil moisture measurements. The muons and the total gamma rays simultaneously detected by the sensor show promising features to account for the incoming variability and for discriminating irrigation and precipitation events, respectively. Further experiments and analyses should be conducted, however, to better understand the accuracy and the added value of these additional data for soil moisture estimation. Overall, the new scintillator design shows to be a valid and compact alternative to conventional CRNS sensors for non-invasive soil moisture monitoring and to open the path to a wide range of applications.

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The Effect of Some Meteorological Parameters on the Cosmic Ray Muons detected by KACST detector

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Educational outreach activities on cosmic rays: investigate the correlation between muon counts and atmospheric parameters

Educational outreach activities on cosmic rays: investigate the correlation between muon counts and atmospheric parameters

Testing a novel sensor design to jointly measure cosmic-ray neutrons, muons and gamma rays for non-invasive soil moisture estimation

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