DocumentCode
2666748
Title
Zenith angle dependence of muon rate at ground level in Bangi
Author
Zain, Nordiana Mohd ; Gopir, Geri ; Yatim, Baharudin ; Sanusi, Hilmi ; Husain, Nor Hanisah
Author_Institution
Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
fYear
2009
fDate
26-27 Oct. 2009
Firstpage
191
Lastpage
194
Abstract
The zenith angle distribution of the ground level muon rate has been measured in Bangi by using muon telescope. The experiments have been done in Muon Laboratory and at the rooftop of the Physics Building, Faculty of Science and Technology, UKM Bangi. The method used to carry out the experiments are by using simultaneous muon strikes on two Geiger-Muller (GM) radiation monitors that are arranged in telescopic mode then counts will accumulate in the counter. These commercially-available GM tubes provide simpler, cheaper and convenient alternatives to muon telescope for the detection of muons at ground level. The counts were manually and automatically monitored and data from January 2007 to March 2007 and January 2009 to March 2009 were recorded. The zenith angle distribution of the muon rate has been measured between 0° and 90° in steps of 15°. The muon zenith angle distributions vary with the zenith angle, ¿, with roughly a cos2¿ shape were described.
Keywords
Geiger counters; cosmic ray muons; muon detection; AD 2007 01 to 03; AD 2009 01 to 03; Bangi; Faculty of Science and Technology; Geiger-Muller radiation monitors; Malaysia; Muon Laboratory; UKM Bangi; ground level muon rate measurement; muon telescope; muons detection; zenith angle distribution; Atmosphere; Cosmic rays; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Geomagnetism; Mesons; Physics; Radiation detectors; Space technology; Telescopes; muon; muon telescope and Geiger-Muller tube; zenith angle;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Space Science and Communication, 2009. IconSpace 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Negeri Sembilan
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4956-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-4956-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICONSPACE.2009.5352639
Filename
5352639
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