A little lead in front of the lens would tend to reduce the detection for gammas but not much for muons. That way the app may be able to identify the muons with higher accuracy.
National Instruments should be interested. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 7:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:Muon Detection app and Holmlid seminar From: Blaze Spinnaker http://news.wisc.edu/23166 Ø Very cool of MFMP to do this... Maybe they can try replicating it [muon detector for mobile phone] ? Problem is – the “detector” is the iphone camera with the lens covered, which will pick up all kinds of high energy radiation. The app analyzes the “image” and if enough pixels light up, it gets recorded as an event – exactly like a similar app does for detecting gamma radiation. There cannot be very much discrimination between the two apps, so all this will tell you is that some kind of radiation is coming through the lens cover… OTOH – this is good to know…. J
