All CAEN Experiments

Soil sample identification

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Equipment: SP5630EN/ENP - Enviromental Kit  Purpose of the experiment: Record the energy spectrum of the Soil sample and identify the peaks, after the energy calibration, by knowing the decay chain of Thorium and Uranium. Fundamentals: Natural radioactivity has several sources that can

Fertilizer and photopeak identification

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No Gamma Equipment: SP5630EN/ENP - Enviromental Kit  Beta Radioactive Source Purpose of the experiment: Record the energy spectrum of Fertilizer sample and identify the Potassium peak. The experience will guide the user to select a ROI and perform a Gaussian fit on the peak.

Background Measurements

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No No Equipments SP5630EN/ENP - Enviromental Kit  Purpose of the experiment: Measurement of the background radioactivity to be subtracted from the energy spectra of the samples. Fundamentals: The main contributors to the background energy spectrum are the gamma radiations that originate from naturally occurring

Energy calibration of System based on LYSO crystal and Fertilizer sample

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No No Equipment: SP5630EN/ENP Environmental KIT - Gamma Radiation Measurements Purpose of the experiment: Recording γ energy spectra of several radioactive sources and detecting the photo-peaks to calibrate the response of the system is the main goal of the experiment. Fundamentals: The calibration

Solar Activity Monitoring

CAEN Educational
SG6220D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, muons, solar wind

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No No Equipment: SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Purpose of the experiment: Observation of cosmic flux variation due to solar activity. Fundamentals: The intensity of the cosmic rays observed at the surface of the Earth is influenced and modulated by geomagnetic effects, by the

Absorption Measurements

CAEN Educational
SG6219D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, muons

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Equipment: SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Requirements: A large iron or lead tile is strongly suggested. Purpose of the experiment: The main goal of this experiment is verify the absorption of the cosmic rays passing through solid matter and understand related observations

Environmental and Cosmic Radiation

CAEN Educational
SG6218D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, muons

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Equipment: SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Requirements: A large iron or lead tile is strongly suggested. Purpose of the experiment: To estimate the contribution of environmental radiation during the detection of the cosmic radiation. Fundamentals: Natural radiation is composed of two components:

Cosmic Shower Detection

CAEN Educational
SG6217D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, cosmic shower, muons

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5620CH educational kit. Equipment SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter SP5609 - Telescope Mechanics or a similar structure Purpose of the experiment: Detection of the cosmic showers by using the coincidence of three scintillating tiles

Zenith Dependence of Muons Flux

CAEN Educational
SG6216D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: Cosmic Rays, muons

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Hardware setup This experiment guide is referred to the SP5620CH educational kit. If you don’t have this kit, choose your own from the following list to visualize the related experiment guide: SP5600AN/D - Educational Beta Kit Equipment SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter SP5609

Cosmic Flux as a function of the altitude

CAEN Educational
SG6215D
Categories: CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays | Tags: balloon, Cosmic Rays, muons

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Equipment: SP5620 - Cosmic Hunter Purpose of the experiment: The measurement of cosmic ray flux as a function of altitude. The goal of this experiment is analyse muon rate behaviour by performing measurements at different altitude levels. For example, one may