TRAGALDABAS: a new RPC based detector for the regular study of cosmic rays

A Blanco; J J Blanco; J Collazo; P Fonte; J A Garzón; A Gómez; G Kornakov; T Kurtukian; A López Agüera; J M López; L Lópes; M Morales; A Morozova; J C Mouriño; M A Pais; M Palka; V Pérez Muñuzuri; P Ribeiro; I Rodríguez Cabo; I Sosa; J Taboada

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/C09027

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TRAGALDABAS: a new RPC based detector for the regular study of cosmic rays

A Blanco^d, J J Blanco^a, J Collazo^h, P Fonte^d, J A Garzón^h, A Gómez^g, G Kornakov^f, T Kurtukian^b, A López Agüeraⁱ, J M López^h, L Lópes^d, M Morales^h, A Morozova^c, J C Mouriño^g, M A Pais^c, M Palka^e, V Pérez Muñuzuri^j, P Ribeiro^c, I Rodríguez Caboⁱ, I Sosaⁱ and J Taboada^j

Published 25 September 2014 • © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 9, September 2014

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juanantonio.garzon@usc.es

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^a Univ. Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

^b CEN-Bordeaux, Bordeaux-Gradignan, France

^c CGUC-Univ. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

^d LIP-Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

^e Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

^f TU-Darmstad, Darmstadt, Germany

^g CESGA, S. de Compostela, Spain

^h LabCAF- Univ. Santiago de Compostela, S. de Compostela, Spain

ⁱ SEAG- Univ. Santiago de Compostela, S. de Compostela, Spain

^j Meteogalicia, S. de Compostela, Spain

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Received 30 June 2014
Accepted 14 July 2014
Published 25 September 2014

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A Blanco et al 2014 JINST 9 C09027

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/C09027

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Abstract

Cosmic rays of a wide range of energies are arriving permanently to the Earth coming from the Sun or beyond our solar system. Their study is of interest for many fields of research. A high granularity and high time resolution cosmic ray tracking detector, TRAGALDABAS, based on timing RPC cells, has been recently installed at the Faculty of Physics of the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, in order to go deeper into the understanding of the cosmic rays arriving to the Earth surface. In this article, the layout and the main performances of the detector are shown together and some of the expected research fields are discussed.

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