All “Cosmic Rays” experiments

Muons Vertical Flux on Horizontal Detector

CAEN Educational
SG6212D
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 Purpose

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

Detection Efficiency

CAEN Educational
SG6214D
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. Equipment SP5620CH - Cosmic Hunter Additional SP5622 - Detection System DT1081B Four-Fold Programmable Logic Unit (Discriminator, Coincidence and Scaler modules in one solution) Purpose of the experiment: To goal of

Statistics

Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources No Gamma 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 Purpose of the experiment

CAEN Educational: Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments

September 24th, 2021| |CAEN Experiments, Cosmic Rays, Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity, Particle Physics, Photons

CAEN S.p.A., an important industrial spin-off of the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), is pleased to present its new activities in the educational field. CAEN brings the experience acquired in almost 40 years of collaboration with the High Energy & Nuclear Physics community into the university educational laboratories by providing modern physics experiments based on the latest technologies and instrumentation. CAEN has realized different modular Educational Kits, all based on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) state of-the-art light sensors with single photon sensitivity and unprecedented photon number resolving capability. They have proven to be suitable for an increasing number of applications in science and industry. The main goal is to inspire students and guide them towards the analysis and comprehension of different physics phenomena with a series of experiments based on state-of-the art technologies, instruments and methods.