Protocol for cosmic-ray muon detection using plastic scintillators and photomultiplier tubes

Here, we present a protocol for cosmic-ray muon detection using plastic scintillators and photomultiplier tubes (PMT). We describe steps for assembling a scintillator-PMT detector, high-voltage plateauing and per-channel gain matching, and N-fold coincidence timing and window alignment. We then detail procedures for gated multichannel analyzer spectra acquisition and data export. This protocol has applications spanning muon radiography, detector benchmarking, and geophysical or infrastructural imaging. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Eleslambouly et al. 1