Speaker
JEAN-LUC GAUVREAU
(Occidental College)
Description
The Occidental College/KoBold Metals collaboration is exploring a detector to extend muography underground to depths of 1 km. Deployed at scale such a detector would utilize 1000s of square meters of surface detectors to detect incoming air showers and inexpensive, non-directional borehole detectors in coincidence. The measurement of muon direction and depth provide the basic parameters needed for muography. As a proof of principle, we have deployed an array of 10 surface scintillators in conjunction with 4 borehole scintillators at Occidental College. All surface detectors use a unique GPS system to measure time with an accuracy of a few ns across the array. Each unit communicates wirelessly for deployment at scale.
Author
JEAN-LUC GAUVREAU
(Occidental College)