We present a portable, versatile cosmic ray telescope ALBERT (A Little Bar ExpeRimental Tracker) for outreach and teaching purposes. ALBERT is based on plastic scintillator bars containing WLS fibers equipped with Silicon Photomultipliers. It is composed of four xy modules with 8 bars each and its overall dimensions are about 50×30×30cm3 . The SiPM readout is based on a custom front-end board using the PETIROC 2A ASIC. The instrument is also equipped with additional sensors for environment characterization. To allow portability, data acquisition and online analysis are performed using a Raspberry Pi. Different complexity level DAQ and analysis software interfaces have been developed in order to be flexible in any kind of application. In this contribution we present the design of the instrument and characterization measurements.
ALBERT: A Little Bar ExpeRimental Tracker, a portable cosmic ray telescope for outreach and teaching purposes
Loparco, Francesco;Loporchio, Serena;
2023-01-01
Abstract
We present a portable, versatile cosmic ray telescope ALBERT (A Little Bar ExpeRimental Tracker) for outreach and teaching purposes. ALBERT is based on plastic scintillator bars containing WLS fibers equipped with Silicon Photomultipliers. It is composed of four xy modules with 8 bars each and its overall dimensions are about 50×30×30cm3 . The SiPM readout is based on a custom front-end board using the PETIROC 2A ASIC. The instrument is also equipped with additional sensors for environment characterization. To allow portability, data acquisition and online analysis are performed using a Raspberry Pi. Different complexity level DAQ and analysis software interfaces have been developed in order to be flexible in any kind of application. In this contribution we present the design of the instrument and characterization measurements.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
