Using a portable muon detector for radioactive source measurements and identification

Joaquin Masias; Franco Delgado; Lucía Coll; Alicia Pérez; José Bazo; Alberto Gago

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.162588

Using a portable muon detector for radioactive source measurements and identification

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-08-20 v2

Authors: Joaquin Masias , Franco Delgado , Lucía Coll , Alicia Pérez , José Bazo , Alberto Gago

View on arXiv ↗ PDF ↗ DOI ↗

Abstract

We have re-purposed portable plastic scintillator muon detectors, designed by the CosmicWatch project, for the measurement of electrons emitted by the decay of radioactive sources. For the latter purpose we have first calibrated the detectors using the local atmospheric muon flux, performing angular distribution and attenuation measurements. In addition, we have simulated the detector using Geant4 in a detailed fashion for a cross-check and better understanding of the device. Then, we have developed a method to evaluate the activity of $\beta$ -sources and to discriminate different $\beta$ -sources by looking into their respective voltage spectrum output.

Keywords

muon physics atmospheric muon physics neutron detection

Cite

@article{arxiv.1903.04562,
  title  = {Using a portable muon detector for radioactive source measurements and identification},
  author = {Joaquin Masias and Franco Delgado and Lucía Coll and Alicia Pérez and José Bazo and Alberto Gago},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04562},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 12 figures. Supplementary materials and simulation scripts at: https://github.com/Jmasias04/Geant4-Simulation-of-Desktop-Muon-Detector

Using a portable muon detector for radioactive source measurements and identification

Abstract

Keywords

Cite

Comments

Related papers