Table 1 Relationship between the muon’s arriving zenith angle (in degrees), the distance between Detector1 and Detector2 (in centimeters), and the password update rate, expressed as more than 0.5 passwords per second (PPS), 1 password per minute (PPM), and 1 password per hour (PPH).

From: Autonomous password generation and setting system with cosmic coding and transfer (COSMOCAT) and cosmic time calibrator (CTC)

 

>0.5 PPS

1 PPM

1 PPH

Zenith angle (º)

 0

< 10 cm

70 cm

> 500 cm

 40

< 10 cm

50 cm

420 cm

 50

< 10 cm

45 cm

350 cm

 60

< 10 cm

40 cm

270 cm

 80

–

15 cm

100 cm

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