The muon detector uses two Geiger-Müller tubes [top], each inserted into a sensor board [bottom right]. Both boards are connected to an Arduino Nano microcontroller [bottom left].James Provost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIT physicists design $100 handheld muon detector Pocket-sized device detects charged particles in surrounding air. Peer-Reviewed Publication Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

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>.