Calibration of a large water-Cherenkov detector at the Sierra Negra site of LAGO

for the LAGO Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.03.055

Calibration of a large water-Cherenkov detector at the Sierra Negra site of LAGO

for the LAGO Collaboration

Ciudad Universitaria
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas
Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Escuela Politecnica Nacional
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Optics and Electronics
Universidad Dederal de Campina Grande
Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial
Instituto Antártico Argentina
Universidad de Los Andes
Universidad Central de Venezuela
CIEMAT
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
Universidad de Nariño
Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo

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Abstract

The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) is an international network of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCD) set in different sites across Latin America. On top of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico at an altitude of 4530 m, LAGO has completed its first out of three instrumented detector. It consists of a cylindrical water tank with a diameter of 7.3 m and a height of 1 m and a total detection area of 40 m² that is sectioned in four equal slices. In this work we present the full calibration procedure of this detector and the initial measurements of stability in rate. We also derive the effective area to gamma-ray bursts for the complete array using the LAGO simulation chain, based on CORSIKA and GEANT4.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	28-37
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	861
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.03.055
State	Published - 21 Jul 2017

Keywords

Calibration
GRBs
LAGO
PMTs
Water Cherenkov detector

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Calibration of a large water-Cherenkov detector at the Sierra Negra site of LAGO

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