BATATA: a buried muon hodoscope

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

San Carlos

Congreso; XIII MEXICAN SCHOOL OF PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 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/cm^2 to 600 g/cm^2 and by a triangular array of water cerenkov detectors located nearby on ground.