BATATA: a buried muon hodoscope

SANCHEZ, F.; SUPANITSKY, D.A.; MEDINA-TANCO, G.; PAIC, G.; PATINO-SALAZAR, M.E.; D'OLIVO, J.C.; ALFARO-MOLINA, R.

San Carlos, Mexico

Conferencia; 13th Mexican School Of Particles And Fields (MSPF 2008); 2008

Muon hodoscopes have several applications, ranging from astrophysics to fundamental particle physics. In this work, we present a detector dedicated to the study, at ground level, of the main signals of cosmic-ray induced showers above 6 PeV. The whole detector is composed by a set of three parallel dual-layer scintillator planes buried at fix depths ranging from 120 g/cm2 to 600 g/cm2 and by a triangular array of water cerenkov detectors located nearby on ground.