Autor(es):
Afonso, L. ; Alexandre, I. ; Andringa, S. ; Assis, P. ; Blanco, O. ; Bezzeghoud, M. ; Borges, J. ; Caldeira, B. ; Cazon, L. ; Costa, J. ; Dobrilla, P. ; Duarte, M. ; Lopes, L. ; Matos, J. ; Oliveira, R. ; Pais, V. ; Pimenta, M. ; Pinto, M. ; Saraiva, J. ; Sarmento, R. ; Silva, J.F. ; Teixeira, P. ; Tomé, B.
Data: 2022
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32048
Origem: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
Assunto(s): Education; Communication; Outreach; RPC detectors; Modeling
Descrição
The LouMu team joins together specialists in particle detectors and in cosmic ray analyses, geophysicists and science communicators to muograph an underground gallery of an old mine, now open to visitors of a science museum. The muon telescope is made of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) developed to operate stably and with low consumption at remote locations, and it has been tested in the Coimbra University, before being moved to an underground gallery in the Lousal Cieˆncia Viva Science Center, in Portugal. In parallel to the scientific goals of surveying the geological faults around the gallery, comparing and combining the information from muography and other techniques, and testing and possibly upgrading these detectors for muography, the project aims to engage students at several levels and the public at large. The telescope was thought to operate in front of visitors, all the project phases will be documented, and the muographic data collected in the university building and the mine gallery will be made available for educational use. Providing an almost online update of simple and complex muographies is a challenge but provides an opportunity for a valued interaction of the public with our usually distant work.
The LouMu project would not be possible without the support of the Mine of Science, Centro Cieˆncia Viva do Lousal. LIP sup- ported the first steps of the project with funding and human resources from several groups, in particular from the Education, Communication, and Outreach group. The project is partially funded by Fundac ̧a ̃o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, EXPL/FIS-OUT/1185/2021.
