March 15, 2018

The Astroparticle Lab put quite a significant effort into the design, building, and characterization of the muon telescope detector over the last couple of years. Today marked the time to perform a scientific measurement. The goal is to provide the absolute muon flux angular distributions at sea level (Abu Dhabi latitude).

The system is completely standalone; it requires electricity only. To avoid “the shadow” of buildings, the lab decided to operate the muon detector outside, and they bought a power generator with a few gallons of petrol. The lab will run the detector for 72 hours and will require more than 2 millions of muon tracks.