Desarrollo de un nuevo sistema de detección de anisotropías de muones cósmicos y su aplicación en Space Weather
- Sindulfo Ayuso de Gregorio
- Juan José Blanco Ávalos
- José Medina Doctor
- Raúl Gómez Herrero
- Gonzalo Díaz Romeral Marcos
- Germán Ros Magán (coord.)
- Antonio Guerrero Ortega (coord.)
- Cristina Tejedor Martínez (coord.)
- Francisco Pascual Vives (coord.)
- Paloma Ruíz Benito (coord.)
- Vanessa Tabernero Mago (coord.)
Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá ; Universidad de Alcalá
ISBN: 978-84-16599-48-6
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 17-27
Congress: Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Universidad de Alcalá (6. 2017. Alcalá de Henares)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
A new concept of muon telescope with applications in Space Weather is presented in this work. It is made up of a pair of large area organic scintillators with eight photomultipliers tubes (PMTs) gathering the light emerging by their lateral faces (100 x 5 cm). Different tests and Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out showing that pulses picked up by PMTs contain information about muons’ path. The pre cision and reliability of results depend on the number and placement of PMTs used. In order to determine the optimal configuration, several simulations and experimental tests have been carried out, whose preliminary results are discussed in this paper.