12–16 Sept 2022
Centro Congressi Federico II
Europe/Rome timezone

Measurement of the cosmic radiation rate in water as a function of detector depth

16 Sept 2022, 12:15
15m
Aula Magna (Centro Congressi Federico II)

Aula Magna

Centro Congressi Federico II

Via Partenope, 36, 80121 Napoli NA
Oral presentation Outreach

Speaker

Marco Schioppa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

High school students and teachers perform Domenico Pacini's experiment in a modern key on the origin of the natural ionizing radiation that surrounds us. With the collaboration of INFN researchers and the University, the schools prepared for about 2 months for this event, collecting a large amount of data in the air and analyzing them. Then they went to a lake where they performed the measurements at different depth in water. This activity is one of the many organized by the INFN-OCRA outreach activities.

Primary author

Marco Schioppa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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