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The MuonPi Cosmic Detector Project

The MuonPi Project is a RaspberryPi-based system using an inexpensive plastic scintillator + SiPM photo sensor to detect muons from cosmic air showers with a time-stamping accuracy of several tens of nanoseconds utilizing the u-blox NEO-M8N GNSS module's "timemark" feature.

Learn about cosmic radiation

• Get started with Cosmic Rays, especially Muons
• "Kosmische Strahlung" Podcast (in German) on weltderphysik.de
• "Der kosmischen Strahlung auf der Spur" article (in German) on weltderphysik.de
• "Kosmische Teilchen mit extragalaktischem Ursprung" article (in German) on weltderphysik.de

Learn about the detectors

• Basics of Scintillators
• Find out about Silicon photomultipliers
• How the detector works

The Hardware

SiPM PCB

The SiPM photo sensor which detects the dim light generated inside the scintillation detector is mounted on a small SiPM board. Different numbers of SiPMs and read-out configurations can be realized through its flexible design.

Preamplifier

The preamplifier is located in close vicinity to the SiPM photodetector board and amplifies the weak signals for transmission to the MuonPi board, where they are further processed and evaluated.

The MuonPi-Board

The main signal processing, voltage generation and parameter monitoring and adjustment is done on the Raspberry Pi plug-on MuonPi Board.

Admin Area

Useful resources for admins.

Other languages

• Main Page/de

About this Wiki

• How to edit? help for creators
• List of config variables
• MediaWiki-FAQ
• Mailing list of new MediaWiki version announcements

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Sandbox page for testing/playing :

• Sandbox