Results from the Puebla extensive air shower detector array

✍ Scribed by H. Salazar; O. Martinez; E. Moreno; J. Cotzomi; L. Villaseñor; O. Saavedrac

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 923 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80391-2

✦ Synopsis

We describe the design and operation of the first stage of the EAS-UAP extensive air shower array, as a detector of very high energy cosmic rays (E, > 1014eV). The array is located at the Campus of Puebla University and consists of 18 liquid scintillator detectors, with an active surface of 1 m2 each and a detector spacing of 20 m in a square grid. In this report we discuss the stability and the calibration of the detector array, ss derived from the 10 detectors in operation in the first stage. The main characteristics of the array allow us also to use it as an educational and training facility. First distributions of the arrival direction and the lateral shower srpead are also given.