Title
Calibration of a large water-Cherenkov detector at the Sierra Negra site of LAGO
Date Issued
21 July 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Galindo A.
Moreno E.
Carrasco E.
Torres I.
Carramiñana A.
Bonilla M.
Salazar H.
Conde R.
Alvarez W.
Alvarez C.
Araujo C.
Areso O.
Arnaldi H.
Asorey H.
Audelo M.
Barros H.
Bonnett M.
Calderon R.
Calderon M.
Campos-Fauth A.
Carramiñana A.
Carrasco E.
Carrera E.
Cazar D.
Cifuentes E.
Collogo D.
Conde R.
Cotzomi J.
Dasso S.
De Castro A.
De La Torre J.
De León R.
Estupiñan A.
Galindo A.
García L.
Gomez Berisso M.
González M.
Guevara W.
Gulisano A.M.
Hernández H.
Jaimes A.
López J.
Mantilla C.
Martín R.
Martinez-Mendez A.
Martínez O.
Martins E.
Macías-Meza J.J.
Mayo-García R.
Melo T.
Mendoza J.
Miranda P.
Montes E.
Morales E.
Morales I.
Moreno E.
Murrugarra C.
Nina C.
Núñez L.A.
Núñez-Castiñeyra A.
Peña-Rodríguez J.
Perenguez J.
Pérez H.
Pérez Y.
Pérez G.
Pinilla-Velandia S.
Ponce E.
Quishpe R.
Quispe F.
Ramelli M.
Reyes K.
Rivera H.
Rodriguez J.
Rodríguez-Ferreira J.
Rodríguez-Pascual M.
Romero M.
Rubio-Montero A.J.
Salazar H.
Salinas J.
Sarmiento-Cano C.
Sidelnik I.
Sofo Haro M.
Suárez-Durán M.
Subieta M.
Tello J.
Ticona R.
Torres I.
Torres-Niõ L.
Truyenque J.
Valencia-Otero M.
Vargas S.
Vásquez N.
Villaseñor L.
Zavala L.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) is an international network of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCD) set in different sites across Latin America. On top of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico at an altitude of 4530 m, LAGO has completed its first out of three instrumented detector. It consists of a cylindrical water tank with a diameter of 7.3 m and a height of 1 m and a total detection area of 40 m2 that is sectioned in four equal slices. In this work we present the full calibration procedure of this detector and the initial measurements of stability in rate. We also derive the effective area to gamma-ray bursts for the complete array using the LAGO simulation chain, based on CORSIKA and GEANT4.
Start page
28
End page
37
Volume
861
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85019144277
Source
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
ISSN of the container
01689002
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