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, γ-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.

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Title
Detection response of the active components of the SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope at Sierra Negra
Author
Monterde-Andrade, F. 1 ; González, L. X. 2 ; Valdés-Galicia, J. F. 1 ; Morales-Olivares, O. G. 3 ; Sergeeva, M. A. 4 ; Newton-Bosch, J. 1 ; Ortiz, E. 5 ; Hurtado, A. 1 ; Taylor, R. 1 ; Matsubara, Y. 6 ; Sako, T. 7 ; Itow, Y. 8 ; Kawabata, T. 8 ; Munakata, K. 9 ; Kato, C. 9 ; Hayashi, Y. 9 ; Masuda, Y. 9 ; Matsumoto, M. 9 ; Takamaru, H. 10 ; Shibata, S. 6 ; Oshima, A. 6 ; Koi, T. 6 ; Kojima, H. 6 ; Tsuchiya, H. 11 ; Watanabe, K. 12 ; Kozai, M. 13 ; Nakamura, Y. 14 

1  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Ciudad de México, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001) 
2  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Ciudad de México, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001); Unidad Michoacán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, LANCE/SCiESMEX. Instituto de Geofísica, Morelia, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001) 
3  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra, Ciudad de México, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001); Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Facultad de Ciencias en Física y Matemáticas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, México (GRID:grid.440446.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1766 8314) 
4  Unidad Michoacán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, LANCE/SCiESMEX. Instituto de Geofísica, Morelia, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001) 
5  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra, Ciudad de México, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001) 
6  Chubu University, Center for Muon Science and Technology, Kasugai, Japan (GRID:grid.254217.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 8868 2202) 
7  University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kashiwa, Japan (GRID:grid.26999.3d) (ISNI:0000 0001 2151 536X) 
8  Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan (GRID:grid.27476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 0943 978X) 
9  Shinshu University, Faculty of Science, Matsumoto, Japan (GRID:grid.263518.b) (ISNI:0000 0001 1507 4692) 
10  Chubu University, College of Engineering, Kasugai, Japan (GRID:grid.254217.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 8868 2202) 
11  Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-gun, Japan (GRID:grid.20256.33) (ISNI:0000 0001 0372 1485) 
12  National Defense Academy of Japan, Yokosuka, Japan (GRID:grid.260563.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0376 0080) 
13  Research Organization of Information and Systems, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Tachikawa, Japan (GRID:grid.418987.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 2181) 
14  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.9227.e) (ISNI:0000000119573309) 
Pages
981
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Sep 2024
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13325-0
ProQuest document ID
3110545624
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.