Abstract

Research on cosmic rays is of big interest either for getting a better understanding about their origin and properties or because they offer very valuable information about the galactic, the solar and the Earth's environment. In order to improve our knowledge of all those fields, a high resolution cosmic ray tracking detector, TRAGALDABAS, is being commissioned at the Faculty of Physics of the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). In this article we make overview of the main performances of the detector and we present some very preliminary results showing that the detector is taking good data, and that we are gathering a valuable sample of events, ready to be analyzed.

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Title
TRAGALDABAS: A new high resolution detector for the regular study of cosmic rays
Author
Alvarez-Pol, H 1 ; Blanco, A 2 ; Blanco, J J 3 ; Collazo, J 4 ; Fonte, P 2 ; Garzón, J A 4 ; Gómez, A 5 ; Kornakov, G 6 ; Kurtukian, T 7 ; Lopes, L 2 ; Morales, M 8 ; Morozova, A 9 ; Pais, M A 9 ; Palka, M 10 ; V Pérez Muñuzuri 11 ; Rey, P 5 ; Ribeiro, P 9 ; Seco, M 1 ; Taboada, J 11 

 Depto. de Física de Partículas & IGFAE - Univ. Santiago de Compostela. S. de Compostela, Spain 
 LIP-Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal 
 Univ. Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares, Spain 
 LabCAF - Univ. Santiago de Compostela. S. de Compostela, Spain 
 CESGA. S. de Compostela, Spain 
 TU-Darmstad. Darmstadt, Germany 
 CEN-Bordeaux. Bordeaux-Gradignan, France 
 LabCAF - Univ. Santiago de Compostela. S. de Compostela, Spain; Present address: ICMM/CSIC-Madrid, Spain 
 Univ. Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal 
10  Jagellionan Univ. Cracow, Poland 
11  Meteogalicia. Xunta de Galicia. S. de Compostela, Spain 
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Aug 2015
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2576383898
Copyright
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