Trajectory determination of muons using scintillators and a novel self-organizative map
Authors
Regadío Carretero, Alberto; García Tejedor, Juan Ignacio; Ayuso de Gregorio, Sindulfo; García Población, Óscar; Blanco Ávalos, Juan José; [et al.]Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59210DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2020.164166
ISSN: 0168-9002
Publisher
Elsevier
Date
2020-09-01Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Automática; Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Física y Matemáticas. Unidad docente FísicaFunders
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Bibliographic citation
Regadío Carretero, A. [et al.]. 2020, “Trajectory determination of muons using scintillators and a novel self-organizative map”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 973, art. no. 164166.
Keywords
Digital pulse processing
Instrumentation
Muon detector
Scintillator
Self-organizative mapNeural network
Neural network
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//CTM2016-77325-C2-1-P/ES/OBSERVATORIO DE RAYOS COSMICOS ANTARTICOS/ORCA
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Publisher's version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164166Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
© 2020 Elsevier
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
In this work we propose a method for the determination of the impact point of muons in scintillators using a novel type of self-organizative maps called Self-Equalizing Map (SEM) and comparing the relative pulse height obtained by four photomultipliers (PMTs) at each scintillator. Using two 1 m${^2}$ scintillators and calculating the impact point in both of them, we can also estimate the angle of incidence of these particles. This method has been specifically designed for a muon telescope called MITO (Muon Impact Tracer and Observer) which is part of the ORCA (Antarctic Cosmic Ray Observatory). Data from tests using MITO in Livingston Island, Antarctica have been used to evaluate the feasibility of this method. The obtained directions have been found to be consistent with the expected incident directions of atmospheric muons produced by the interaction between CRs and atmospheric atoms.
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