Testing and quality protocols of 3-folded x-y hodoscope

SANCHEZ, F.; MEDINA-TANCO, G.; SUPANITSKY, D.A.; D'OLIVO, J.C.; GUZMAN, A.; PAIC, G.; PATINO-SALAZAR, M.E.; MORENO-BARBOSA, E.; SALAZAR-IBARGUEN, H.; VALDES-GALICIA, J. F.; VARGAS-TREVINO, M.A.; VERGARA-LIMON, S.; VILLASENOR, L.M.

Lodz, Polonia

Conferencia; 31th ICRC - International Cosmic Ray Conference; 2009

Hodoscopes are widely used in cosmic ray experiments. Their main features are tracking and identification of particles. In this work we present detailed testing, building and quality assessment protocols of an hodoscope composed by 294 detection channels distributed over 3 x-y planes. This detector is currently being built in order to study the muon component of cosmic ray showers at ground level. The basic unit of the presented device consists of a MINOS-type scintillator strip with an embedded 1,5 mm diameter Bicron BC92 optical fiber, one pixel of a multianode H7546B Hamamatsu photomultiplier and a fast front-end electronic.