Interesting MUON Detector

I have seen these before. They are basically coincidence detectors. It is an old principle and works well. You simply make a coincidence detector using two or more tubes, shield them from each other and point it at the sky. The muons will do the rest. It can be taken further (at great cost and increasing complexity) by adding more and more tubes in a lattice type arrangement, so a row going from east to west, and another row under them going from north to south, so perpendicular to each other. Depending on how wide and the spacing between the tubes, it could potentially cover a 160 degree view of the sky, and if programmed right you could potentially work out what direction the muon came from. The resolution wouldn't be great, but would certainly give a good indication what direction it came from. To increase the resolution SiPM photodetectors could be used. As they are a very small package, these could be placed very close to each other, and instead of the layers being lines, they would be like pixels. So having two layers of these would offer a much higher resolution. It could be scaled up to thousands, maybe tens of thousands detectors into large arrays for more sensitivity, and I think that is how the large detectors that are used in scanning the pyramids were made.

Just using two tubes like this is very simple and cheap to do, and not only can you identify some muons, you get two geiger counters too that could to log to radmon, MQTT, other things.