Status and performance of the underground muon detector of the Pierre Auger observatory

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378271:_____/22:00564973 RIV/61989592:15310/22:73616657

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.444.0267" target="_blank" >10.22323/1.444.0267</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Status and performance of the underground muon detector of the Pierre Auger observatory

Original language description

The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in Malargüe, Argentina, is the largest facility for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and has been operating successfully for nearly 20 years. For its second phase of operation, the Observatory is undergoing a major upgrade, called AugerPrime, to increase its sensitivity to the primary mass. As part of the upgrade, the Underground Muon Detector is being deployed in the low-energy extension of the Surface Detector. It consists of an array of 30m2 plastic scintillator muon counters buried 2.3m underground in the vicinity of the water-Cherenkov detectors. This will allow a direct measurement of the muonic component of air showers in the energy range 1016.5 eV to 1019 eV, contributing significantly to the discrimination of the primary mass and to the testing of hadronic interaction models. In this contribution, the deployment status and performance of the Underground Muon Detector are presented.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10303 - Particles and field physics

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of Science

ISBN

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ISSN

1824-8039

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

267

Publisher name

Sissa Medilab srl

Place of publication

Trieste

Event location

Nagoya

Event date

Jul 26, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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