High Energy Physics Seminars

Cosmic Ray Detectors for Space Weather Studies

by Dr. Arun Babu K.P. (St. Alberts College, Ernakulam, Kerala)

Monday, June 27, 2022 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR, Mumbai ( AG-69 )
Description
Being charged particles, cosmic rays are a good proxy to study the magnetic field structures of solar transient events. Large area ground-based cosmic ray detectors can give more insight into these large solar transient events. The secondary particles measured at ground-based detectors show a clear signature of solar modulations along with atmospheric modulations. In this talk I will be focusing on the corrections we applied to make the observations suitable for solar modulation and space weather studies. We were able to measure atmospheric modulations with precision and to make appropriate corrections for these atmospheric modulations. Also, we improved the accuracy of our measurement by identifying the abnormally behaving components in the detector using the measured atmospheric modulation parameters. Lastly, I will shed light on how these corrected data could be used for solar modulation and space weather studies.