Solar Power Supply and Environmental Control System for DIMS Experiment

Discussion timeslot (ZOOM-Meeting): 16. July 2021 - 18:00
ZOOM-Meeting URL: https://icrc2021.desy.de/pf_access_abstracts
Corresponding Session: https://icrc2021-venue.desy.de/channel/Presenter-Forum-1-Evening-All-Categories/48
Abstract:
'The DIMS (Dark matter and Interstellar Meteoroid Study) experiment is designed to study macroscopic dark matters such as nuclearites/strange quark matters (SQM) and interstellar meteoroids. The DIMS experiment system is under construction at the Telescope Array (TA) cosmic-ray experiment site in Utah, USA. The system consists of 4 high-sensitivity CMOS camera stations which will be installed at 3 sites, CLF (Central Laser Facility) and BRM(Black Rock Mesa fluorescence telescope site) of the TA experiment and Hinckley town in the Utah desert each about 20 km apart. rnSince electric power is not supplied to the CLF site by the power company, a solar power system is required. Therefore, we have developed a new solar power supply system and conducted observation tests in Japan. rnAs we are going to operate the camera system every night for an extended period of time, we need to control environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity inside the camera stations as well as monitoring conditions inside and outside the container. We, therefore, developed an environmental control system for the camera station.rnIn this paper, we will present details of the development and test results of the solar power supply system to be installed in CLF and the environmental monitoring and control system of the camera stations.'

Authors: Daiki Shinto | Kaoru Nadamoto | Yugo Iwami | Fumiyoshi Kajino | Yuichiro Tameda | for the DIMS collaboration
Collaboration: DIMS

Indico-ID: 1124
Proceeding URL: https://pos.sissa.it/395/502