This is a bulk kit containing the components for 10 detectors or more detectors to meet the customers requirements. It is intended for educational use of for groups of constructors to share.
If you are interested in this kit please contact us at info@ukraa.com to discuss your requirements and pricing.
This kit contains the components required to build working muon detectors. As supplied the detector will detect β, ϒ, and cosmic muons. To eliminate the random β and ϒ two detectors are required working in coincidence mode.
The constructor will need to supply aluminium foil and insulating tape to wrap the detector. Connecting leads are not included.
The detector element is a scintillator with a silicon photomultiplier optically coupled to the BC-408 scintillator material using the supplied optical coupling grease. The scintillator can be supplied either in its unfinished state or polished and drilled ready for assembly depending on the requirements of the buyer.
Each detector has three printed circuit boards: SiPM, SD card reader and mother board. An Ardunio Nano is the Analogue to Digital converter and serves to drive the OLED display, save the counts to the SD card as a CSV file and communicate with its host via USB. The detector is powered via a USB-mini connector.
Cables are not included. The detector requires a USB cable (type-A to mini-USB) for power and data and a stereo cable (3.5mm to 3.5mm jack plug) for coincident operation.
There is extensive documentation; scientific and construction detail available as a download and a series of YouTube videos explaining the construction process in detail. These are available via the Cosmic Watch website http://www.cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/
There are surface mount components including integrated circuits to be soldered into position. A fine-tipped soldering iron, a steady hand, a magnifier and SMD soldering experience will be required.
For ongoing support there is a forum - https://groups.io/g/muondetector/messages where discussion, questions and ideas can be shared.
Revised 23rd July 2024.
