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Cosmic ray flux and lockdown due to COVID-19 in Kolkata - Any correlation? #MMPMID33897090
Sen A; Chatterjee S; Roy S; Biswas R; Das S; Ghosh SK; Biswas S
Pramana 2021[]; 95 (2): 64 PMID33897090show ga
Cosmic ray muon flux is measured by the coincidence technique using plastic scintillation detectors in the High Energy Physics Detector Laboratory at Bose Institute, Kolkata. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and nationwide complete lockdown, the laboratory was closed from the end of March 2020 till the end of May 2020. After lockdown, although the city is not in its normal state, we still were able to take data on some days. The lockdown imposed a strict restriction on the transport service other than the emergency ones and also most of the industries were shut down in and around the city. This lockdown has significant effect on the atmospheric conditions in terms of change in the concentration of air pollutants. We have measured the cosmic ray flux before and after the lockdown to observe the apparent change if any, due to change in the atmospheric conditions. In this article, we report the measured cosmic ray flux at Kolkata (22.58 composite function N 88.42 composite function E and 11 m above the Sea Level) along with the major air pollutants present in the atmosphere before and after the lockdown.