Speaker
Dr
Juan A. Garzon
(Univ. Santiago de Compostela)
Description
At the end of March 2016, the TRAGALDABAS detector, located at the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela (42.876298,-8.560372), has completed its first year of life taking data regularly, at a duty efficiency close to 95% of the time. TRAGALDABAS (acronym of "TRAsGo for the Analysis of the nuclear matter Decay, the Atmosphere, the earth's B_field And the Solar Activity) is a cosmic ray detector based on the RPC (Resistive Plate Chamber) technology. In its present layout it has four RPC planes of 1.2x1.5 m^2, with 120 cells read-out by pads and around 300 ps time resolution, offering an angular resolution better than 3º, a detection efficiency close to 95% and a zenith angle acceptance near 50º. The first results will be presented related with cosmic rays properties and their correlations with the solar activity, the Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere.
Primary author
Dr
Juan A. Garzon
(Univ. Santiago de Compostela)
