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  • Members: 223
  • Category: Physics
  • Founded: Oct 3, 2003
  • Language: English
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A group dedicated to "Counting Particles from Space".

See Scientific American: February 2001 for a great idea to realize this project.

The Groups-Homepage: Cosmic Ray Muon Particle Detector - cosmicrays.org

Join us to discuss methods such as Geiger-Müller detectors, Scintillators etc. to detect particles (Muons etc.)

Yours,
Captain.

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The average muon count seems to have increased in early morning hour
I've posted a few new files in the Rodney_Howe folder: 090222 and 090220 where there seems to be an increase in the average muon count during the early morning
Posted - Fri Mar 6, 2009 2:34 am
 Rodney Howe
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Re: Cosmic Ray Detector using fluorescent tubes - alpha particle sou
Robert, Americanium 241 is a strong alpha emitter and a weak gamma emitter. The glass in your tubes will block the alphas.  Most Geiger counters have tube
Posted - Thu Mar 5, 2009 1:40 pm
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Re: Cosmic Ray Detector using fluorescent tubes - alpha particle sou
That is excellent feedback Hannes, as I was very disappointed that I didn't get the same level reaction in the tube detector as I did with a Geiger counter. As
Posted - Thu Mar 5, 2009 11:10 am
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Re: Cosmic Ray Detector using fluorescent tubes - alpha particle sou
G'day Robert, ... this sounds a little strange to me, since alphas won't go thru the glass of the tube. Most likely your source also produces a good amount of
Posted - Thu Mar 5, 2009 9:05 am
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Re: Cosmic Ray Detector using fluorescent tubes - alpha particle sou
I went out on the weekend and bought a smoke detector for only $7AU which has a nice little alloy disk with americium 241 (according the package). It seems to
Posted - Thu Mar 5, 2009 6:50 am
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