Thursday, October 15, 2009

Two detectors on 5th floor in NSC

We started taking cosmic flux measurement on the 5th floor of the NSC at GSU with two detectors running simultaneously.


















I did a quick analysis today and made the following two plots:

1) Counting rate from the QuarkNet detector:













2) Counting rate from the two-paddle detector:

QN Detector on the 5th floor


We just started comparing the counting rates from different detectors on the 5th floor of the NSC building at GSU. The graph above shows the hourly rate from taken by QN detector using the Labview program written by Kanishka.


Thursday, October 1, 2009

Measurements in Kell Hall

We now started taking gamma counts in the Kell Hall building of Geaorgia State University. We expect high amount of background radiation exists in this building. Pictures and plots will be posted soon.