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Background and muon counting rates in underground muon measurements with a plastic scintillator counter based on a wavelength shifting fibre and a multi-pixel avalanche photodiode readout

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In this short note we present results of background measurements carried out with polystyrene based cast plastic 12.0×12.0×3.0 cm3 size scintillator counter with a wavelength shifting fibre and a multi-pixel Geiger mode avalanche photodiode readout in the Baksan underground laboratory at a depth of 200 metres of water equivalent. The total counting rate of the scintillator counter measured at this depth and at a threshold corresponding to ∼0.37 of a minimum ionizing particle is approximately 1.3 Hz.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Vladimir I. Volchenko, Evgeniy V. Akhrameev, Leonid B. Bezrukov, Irina M. Dzaparova, Irakliy Sh. Davitashvili, Zhamal Sh. Guliev, Lev V. Inzhechik, Alexander O. Izmaylov, Marat M. Khabibullin, Alexey N. Khotjantsev, Yuri G. Kudenko, Bayarto K. Lubsandorzhiev, Nima B. Lubsandorzhiev, Oleg V. Mineev, Valeriy B. Petkov, Roman V. Poleshuk, Bator A. M. Shaibonov, Alexey T. Shaykhiev, Galina V. Volchenko, Alexey F. Yanin & Nikolay V. Yershov

  2. CUPP/Pyhäsalmi, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Timo Enqvist, Jari Joutsenvaara, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Lauri Olanterä, Tomi Räihä & Juho Sarkamo

  3. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Wladyslaw Trzaska

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Århus, Århus, Denmark

    Hans Fynbo

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  1. Vladimir I. Volchenko
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Correspondence to Bayarto K. Lubsandorzhiev.

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Volchenko, V.I., Akhrameev, E.V., Bezrukov, L.B. et al. Background and muon counting rates in underground muon measurements with a plastic scintillator counter based on a wavelength shifting fibre and a multi-pixel avalanche photodiode readout. centr.eur.j.phys. 8, 445–447 (2010). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11534-009-0135-4

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