| dc.contributor.author | Frankiewicz, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Axani, Spencer Nicholas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conrad, Janet Marie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-26T15:23:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-26T15:23:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-03 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1748-0221 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121105 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detector is a self-contained, hand-held cosmic ray muon detector that is valuable for astro/particle physics research applications and outreach. The material cost of each detector is under $100 and it takes a novice student approximately four hours to build their first detector. The detectors are powered via a USB connection and the data can either be recorded directly to a computer or to a microSD card. Arduino- and Python-based software is provided to operate the detector and an online application to plot the data in real-time. In this paper, we describe the various design features, evaluate the performance, and illustrate the detectors capabilities by providing several example measurements. KEYWORDS: CosmicWatch; Desktop Muon Detector; cosmic rays; muons; outreach | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY-1505858) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Poland. National Science Centre (2015/17/N/ST2/04064) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | MIT Seed Fund | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/03/P03019 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | arXiv | en_US |
| dc.title | The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detector: a self-contained, pocket sized particle detector | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Axani, S.N., K. Frankiewicz, and J.M. Conrad. “The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detector: a Self-Contained, Pocket Sized Particle Detector.” Journal of Instrumentation 13, no. 03 (March 26, 2018): P03019–P03019. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Axani, Spencer Nicholas | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Conrad, Janet Marie | |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of Instrumentation | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-03-15T15:07:23Z | |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Axani, S.N.; Frankiewicz, K.; Conrad, J.M. | en_US |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8866-3826 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 | |
| mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
