A new airborne detector for atmospheric muons

The University of Oxford has started the design and development of the new experiment ADLER (Airborne Detector for Low Energy Rays). This apparatus will measure the cosmic-ray muon flux at an altitude of 10 - 13km. The detector should be flown by aircrafts on transatlantic routes crossing the magnetic equator to investigate the flux at different geomagnetic latitudes. The goal of the experiment is to obtain better constraints on the low energy atmospheric neutrino flux and the results will be of importance to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly.