1–5 Jun 2026
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Instrumentation for muon measurements

1 Jun 2026, 14:55
15m
Talk Detector Developments Instrumentation

Speaker

Mr Alexandru Balaceanu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering)

Description

In recent years, our focus has been on developing new detection techniques that come with a segmentation of the detectors to measure individual muons. This aspect provides more detailed information about the direction and also about their number, offering better performance, greater efficiency compared to integration on large surfaces where optical signals are lost in the plastic scintillator.

In addition to the aspect related to the shape of the detector, we have implemented solutions for reading the scintillators that are compact, efficient and have low power consumption.
Thus, the detectors can provide the muon flux but also the direction of arrival due to the relatively high granularity for each detection plane.

Most detectors are based on SiPM and have relatively compact individual electronics, each channel having a preamplifier and a discriminator. Overall, we managed to have a detector that has a relatively large number of channels and consumes little, thus being able to be used in in situ measurements where energy resources are relatively low, being able to be used even on a battery and why not on a photovoltaic system.

Author

Mr Alexandru Balaceanu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering)

Co-authors

Alexandra Saftoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering) Mr Catalin Vancea (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering) Mr Denis Stanca (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering) Madalina Dobre (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering) Mr Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering)

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