Detection response of the active components of the SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope at Sierra Negra
Abstract The Scibar Cosmic-Ray Telescope (SciCRT) is the most promising detector of the Sierra Negra Cosmic Rays Observatory (SN-CRO). At this location, being a target and a tracker of secondary cosmic rays, the SciCRT offers a high probability of observing solar energetic particles and lower energy galactic cosmic rays (LEGCR); also, it allows the identification of incoming particles by measuring their energy deposition. In this work we present a Geant4-based simulation of the energy deposited by neutrons, $$\gamma $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> -rays, protons, electrons and muons in the optimally running SciCRT components. We also calculated the detection efficiency of the SciCRT at its current state. Our simulation results provide new information about the SciCRT detection response that may be used as a basis to estimate and analyze the energy spectra of primary particles.
Authors
- Takeshi Kawabata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0032-9688)
- L. X. González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0748-4576)
- Y. Itow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8198-1968)
- T. Sako (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7003-6493)
- Jania Newton-Bosch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-4770)
- Y. Hayashi
- Kyoko Watanabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0321-7881)
- Oscar G. Morales-Olivares
- E. Ortiz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1994-7459)
- Jose F. Valdés Galicia
- H. Tsuchiya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5581-0006)
- R. Taylor
- F. Monterde-Andrade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-702X)
- Y. Matsubara
- Hiroyuki Takamaru (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7019-6331)
- Maria A. Sergeeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4074-8633)
- K. Munakata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2131-4100)
- M. Kozai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3948-3666)
- Yuya Nakamura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4018-1718)
- T. Koi
- C. Kato
- Y. Masuda
- S. Shibata
- ANDRES FELIPE CALDERON HURTADO
- H. Kojima
- A. Oshima
- M. Matsumoto
Institutions
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JP)
- Shinshu University (JP)
- Chubu University (JP)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Shinshu University Hospital (JP)
- Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (MX)
- Institute of High Energy Physics (CN)
- Research Organization of Information and Systems (JP)
- Universidad Latina de América (MX)
- National Defense Academy of Japan (JP)
- Nagoya University (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13325-0
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México