Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation
Ambient dose rate surveying has the objective, in most cases, to quantify terrestrial radiation levels. This is true in particular for Citizen Monitoring projects. Readings of detectors, which do not provide spectrally resolved information, such as G-M counters, are the sum of contributions from dif...
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| description | Ambient dose rate surveying has the objective, in most cases, to quantify terrestrial radiation levels. This is true in particular for Citizen Monitoring projects. Readings of detectors, which do not provide spectrally resolved information, such as G-M counters, are the sum of contributions from different sources, including cosmic radiation. To estimate the terrestrial component, one has to subtract the remaining ones. In this paper, we investigate the cosmic response of two particular monitors, the bGeigie Nano, which has been used extensively in the Safecast Citizen Monitoring project, and its upgraded version, the new CzechRad, which uses the same G-M detector, and show how the local contribution of cosmic radiation can be estimated. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-35d4fd49d0a84b96b831d8fafc1925212025-08-20T02:57:01ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-12-012424791510.3390/s24247915Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic RadiationPetr Kuča0Jan Helebrant1Peter Bossew2National Radiation Protection Institute (SÚRO), 140 00 Praha, Czech RepublicNational Radiation Protection Institute (SÚRO), 140 00 Praha, Czech RepublicGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki 036-8560, JapanAmbient dose rate surveying has the objective, in most cases, to quantify terrestrial radiation levels. This is true in particular for Citizen Monitoring projects. Readings of detectors, which do not provide spectrally resolved information, such as G-M counters, are the sum of contributions from different sources, including cosmic radiation. To estimate the terrestrial component, one has to subtract the remaining ones. In this paper, we investigate the cosmic response of two particular monitors, the bGeigie Nano, which has been used extensively in the Safecast Citizen Monitoring project, and its upgraded version, the new CzechRad, which uses the same G-M detector, and show how the local contribution of cosmic radiation can be estimated.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/24/7915bGeigie NanoCzechRadG-M detectorsecondary cosmic radiation |
| spellingShingle | Petr Kuča Jan Helebrant Peter Bossew Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation Sensors bGeigie Nano CzechRad G-M detector secondary cosmic radiation |
| title | Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation |
| title_full | Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation |
| title_fullStr | Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation |
| title_short | Response of the bGeigie Nano and CzechRad Monitors to Secondary Cosmic Radiation |
| title_sort | response of the bgeigie nano and czechrad monitors to secondary cosmic radiation |
| topic | bGeigie Nano CzechRad G-M detector secondary cosmic radiation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/24/7915 |
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