Kuwait Muon Telescope at Physics Department, Kuwait university

Dr. Kazuoki Munakata, Professor of the Physics Department, Shinshu University, Japan Arrived on March 9, 2015 and spent ten days till 20 March 2015.during his visit he upgraded the Muon Telescope network with more tubes to get solar events and hence discussed the latest data with Physics Department Faculty members. The Kuwait Muon Telescope system is part of the global network calledthe Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN) and was installed in March 2006 at Kuwait University with the funding from the Research Administration of Kuwait University, KMT serves Kuwait and the international community in forecasting potential threats from CMEs and geomagnetic storms . The other components of the network GMDN consisting of multi-directional muon telescopes are located at Nagoya (Japan), Hobart (Australia) and Sao Martinho (Brazil). This network is important for forecasting geomagnetic storms several hours in advance. Loss cones are mainly visible 4 -8 hours ahead of shocks associated with major geomagnetic storms. Kuwait Muon Telescope (KMT) is the only detector system for space weather in the Middle East and is one of the four muon detector systems in the world. It consists of two set of two horizontal layers of thirty proportional counter tubes (PCTs) in each layer. Each PCT is a 5 m long cylindrical tube with a 10 cm diameter. The two layers in each set are perpendicular to each other and cover an area of 25 square meters.The Kuwait Muon Telescope has been observing the muons coming to the earth on a continuous basis streaming the data to GMDN, which is collected alongwith other three detector systems at Nagoya (Japan), Hobart (Australia) and San Marinho (Brazil). The website of the GMDN is : http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu/spaceweather/welcome.html