9-12 February 2010
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
Europe/Berlin timezone

Velocity measurement of cosmic muons using INO RPC detector stack

10 Feb 2010, 17:00
3h 30m
Sideroom GSI (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

Sideroom GSI

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH

Planckstr. 1 64291 Darmstadt Germany

Speaker

Mr Sumanta Pal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Description

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration is planning to build a glass RPC based magnetised iron calorimeter (ICAL). A prototype detector stack comprising of 12 RPCs of 1m x 1m in area is setup to track cosmic ray muons. In order to demonstrate its capability to distinguish between up-going and down-going particles, we measured the velocity of the cosmic muons recorded in this stack. We describe in this paper the detector setup, measurement procedure, calibration and results obtained.

Primary author

Mr Sumanta Pal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

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