In lieu of spending a fair bit of money on dedicated muon detectors, you can also hack such a device together with two Geiger-Müller tubes and related circuitry for about $100 or whatever you can ...

To help students better understand leftover muon particles from space, a team of physicists has built a $100 detector. Unbeknownst to many of us, muon particles are raining down on the surface of ...

A cosmic ray muon is a natural ray source with strong penetrability and has broad application prospects, especially in the monitoring of atmospheric temperature variations. In order to accurately ...

Physicists have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles. The detector can be made with common electrical parts, and when turned on, it lights up and counts ...

Conrad and Axani have taken the detector down into the Boston subway, using the changes in the muon count to calculate the depth of the train tunnels. They’ve also brought it into the caverns of ...

A little over a year ago we’d written about a sub $100 muon detector that MIT doctoral candidate [Spencer Axani] and a few others had put together. At the time there was little more than a paper ...

The desktop muon detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students. American Journal of Physics, 2017; 85 (12): 948 DOI: 10.1119/1.5003806 ...

Physicists at MIT have developed and released a $100 muon detector that you can build at home, allowing you to sense deep space bombardment on something that looks like a TV remote. The ...

Dr.Satyanarayana Bheesette, demonstrating a device built by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, for detecting and studying Muon particles, at American College in Madurai on Wednesday.

Los Alamos National Laboratory. "Los Alamos Muon Detector Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 March 2005. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 03 / 050322135547.htm>.

A prototype of a device that could someday detect nukes through layers of steel just passed its first test. The detector, which uses technology that was developed for particle physics experiments ...