Measurement of the Regener-Pfotzer Maximum Using Different Types of Ionising Radiation Detectrors and a New Telemtry Systef TF-ATMON

0560640 - ÚJF 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Kákona, J. - Lužová, Martina - Kákona, Martin - Sommer, Marek - Povišer, Martin - Ploc, Ondřej - Dvořák, R. - Ambrožová, Iva
Measurement of the Regener-Pfotzer Maximum Using Different Types of Ionising Radiation Detectrors and a New Telemtry Systef TF-ATMON.
Radiation Protection Dosimetry. Roč. 198, 9-11 (2022), s. 712-719. ISSN 0144-8420. E-ISSN 1742-3406
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF15_003/0000481
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : cosmic radiation * TF-AMON system * stratospheric balloon
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Impact factor: 1, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncac124

Stratospheric balloons are a useful tool for the investigation of cosmic radiation at high altitudes and the tests of new detectors of cosmic radiation. Due to necessary data processing, the balloon gondola needs to carry, together with radiation detectors, additional supplementary sensors measuring humidity, temperature, location and orientation, altitude, atmospheric pressure, acceleration, etc. A newly developed universal system TF-ATMON, based on using already existing tools of the PX4 open-source project, enables apart from data recording and monitoring, also the possibility to trace the balloon gondola after the flight. The application was demonstrated on stratospheric balloon flight FIK-6. This flight was unique because three different types of radiation detectors were used at one flight. It enabled us to compare the altitude of the Regener-Pfotzer maximum measured with different types of sensors sensitive to a different type of secondary cosmic radiation generated in the atmosphere.
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