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High School Students’ Water Cherenkov Detector

September 24th, 2021| |CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays, Particle Physics, Particle Physics

During last decade a lot of outreach activities were born to bring Science in the youths’ hearts through the study of elementary particles physics using frontier detectors. The aim of this project, i-SpeChe, is to develop a multipurpose prototype detector for a wide range of experiments from the study of natural radioactivity to cosmic rays flux using a SiPM matrix easily coupled to different scintillators or, to realize a Water Cherenkov Detector, to water tank. All the detectors used for outreach activities must be robust, easy to use and transport, LV based and economic. The choice is usually scintillator+ SiPM and this limits the knowledge of the wide range of existing detectors used in particles and astroparticle physics. Our effort is to realize a Cherenkov detector coupling water to a SiPM matrix. Cherenkov detectors are now found in a wide variety of unique applications throughout physics, astrophysics, and biomedicine, with more powerful, and larger devices continuing to be developed and implemented. Particular examples include the many detectors at particle accelerators for hadronic particle identification, the large water Cherenkov detectors used for neutrino detection both for astrophysics and accelerator studies, and the imaging air Cherenkov telescopes used to study very-high-energy γ rays in cosmic radiation. Most of the experiments based on Cherenkov effect in water use PMT. The use of SiPM coupled with water is still under study and i-SpeChe is the first approach for the realization of an outreach Water Cherenkov detector with SiPM.

Hands-on Photon Counting Statistics

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5600E/AN Educational Kit. Equipment: SP5600E - Educational Photon Kit Model SP5600 DT5720A SP5601 SP5650C Description Power Supply and Amplification Unit Desktop Digitizer 250 MS/s LED Driver Sensor Holder for SP5600 with SiPM

Quantum Nature of Light

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No  No  Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5600E/AN Educational Kit. Equipment: SP5600E - Educational Photon Kit Model SP5600 DT5720A SP5601 SP5650C Description Power Supply and Amplification Unit Desktop Digitizer 250 MS/s LED Driver Sensor Holder for SP5600 with SiPM

Muons Vertical Flux on Horizontal Detector

CAEN Educational
SG6212A
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Particle Physics | Tags: Cosmic Rays, Cosmics, muons, Muons Detection

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No Yes Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5600AN/D educational kit. If you don’t have this kit, choose your own from the following list to visualize the related experiment guide: SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Equipment: SP5600D - Educational Beta Kit Model

Muons Detection

CAEN Educational
SG6211A
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, Cosmics, muons, Muons Detection

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5600D educational kit. If you don’t have this kit, choose your own from the following list to visualize the related experiment guide: SG6211D - Cosmic Hunter Equipment: SP5600D - Educational Beta Kit

Spatial Resolution

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes Yes Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5700 educational kit. Equipment: SP5700 - EasyPET Model SP5700 Additional Tool Description EasyPET 22Na Radioactive source (recommended: 1/2 inch disc, 10 μCi) Purpose of the experiment Evaluation of the spatial resolution of