Speaker
Dr
Brian Wundheiler
(Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas)
Description
The AMIGA enhancement (Auger Muons and Infill for
the Ground Array) of the Pierre Auger Observatory consists of a 23.5 km$^2$
infill area where air shower particles are sampled by water-Cherenkov
detectors at the surface and by 30 m$^2$ scintillation counters
buried 2.3 m underground. The Engineering Array of AMIGA, completed since
February 2015, includes 37 scintillator modules (290 m$^2$) in a hexagonal
layout. In this work, the muon counting performance of the scintillation
detectors is analysed over the first 22 months of operation. A parametrisation
of the detector counting resolution and the lateral trigger probability are
presented. Finally, preliminary results on the observed muon lateral
distribution function (LDF) are discussed.
| Collaboration | Pierre Auger |
|---|---|
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 667 |
Primary author
Dr
Brian Wundheiler
(Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas)
