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Detecting Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays are high energy particles which strikes the earth from space. When cosmic rays hit earth's atmosphere, the impacts cause nuclear reactions which produce pions.
These pions decay into muons and muon neutrinos. Many muons decay on the way down into neutrinos and electrons
while others reach the surface of the earth.
We are detecting these muons on the earth's surface by utilizing a homebrew Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) Detector stack developed
for the India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project. On the right hand side you are seeing the live tracks of cosmic ray muons as they traverse through our RPC detector stack.
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INO, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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