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Keywords: Muon Flux, Local Muon Density Spectrum, High Energies, Extensive Air Showers, Multi-Wire Drift Chambers.
In this talk the concept of the Multifunctional Detector of Muons (MDM) which is currently developed in the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI is described. MDM represents an array of multi-wire drift chambers shielded by absorber layers, designed to investigate single and multi-particle events within the zenith angle range of 0° to 60°.
The synergy of MDM with the large-scale TREK detector, constructed with similar drift chambers, opens up the possibility for a unified methodology and detection technique for studying muon flux in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) across the full zenith angle range.
In the first configurations, the MDM will consist of two pairs of coordinate planes, each pair consisting of 14 drift chambers, and every chamber covers an area of 1.85 m². Future extension plans involve doubling the number of coordinate planes.
The detector design, deployment of the drift chambers, the position and dimensions of the absorber and in particular the detector parameters obtained as a result of the modeling in the Geant4 software package are considered. Possible contributions of the installation for scientific research and its further development when increasing the number of layers of drift chambers and the absorber are discussed.
