The AMIGA Muon Counters of the Pierre Auger Observatory: Performance and Studies of the Lateral Distribution Function

B. WUNDHEILER, THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION (VER A. LUCERO EN LISTA AUTORES ARCHIVO ADJUNTO)

The Hague

Conferencia; 34st International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015; 2015

The AMIGA enhancement (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) of the Pierre Auger Observatory consists of a 23.5km?2 infill area where air shower particles are sampled by water-Cherenkov detectors at the surface and by 30m?2 scintillation counters buried 2.3 m underground. The Engineering Array of AMIGA, completed since February 2015, includes 37 scintillator mod- ules (290m?2) in a hexagonal layout. In this work, the muon counting performance of the scintil- lation detectors is analysed over the first 20 months of operation. Parametrisations 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.