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A new and simple technique has been developed using plastic scintillator detectors for the study of angular variation of cosmic ray intensity near the sea level. A systematic study of the characteristics of the plastic scintillator paddle detector has been carried out. The yield uniformity of the detector has also been studied. The details of the measurement and the experimental result are presented in this article.
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We would like to thank Prof. Sibaji Raha, Prof. Sanjay K. Ghosh, Dr. Rajarshi Ray and Dr. Sidharth K. Prasad for their valuable suggestion and discussions during the course of the study. We would also like to thank Mr. Aritra Mondal of Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, for his help in the study. We are thankful to Bose Institute workshop for all the mechanical work to build the light guide and coupler for light guide. Finally, we are thankful to GSI detector laboratory, Germany, for providing the optical glue, grease, etc., used to build the detector. R. P. Adak acknowledge the support UGC order no—20-12/2009 (ii) EU-IV. S. Biswas acknowledges the support of his Ramanujan Fellowship. This work is also partially supported by the research grant SR/MF/PS-01/2014-BI from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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Roy, S. et al. (2018). Measurement of Angular Variation of Cosmic Ray Intensity with Plastic Scintillator Detector. In: Biswas, S., Das, S., Ghosh, S. (eds) Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7665-7_20
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