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astro-ph.HE2026

Observation of the Forbush decrease on 2024 May 10, using the ALPAQUITA air-shower array at the 70-1000 GV rigidity range

M. Anzorena, E. de la Fuente, K. Fujita +49

The Andes Large area PArticle detector for Cosmic ray and Astronomy (ALPACA) is a new air-shower array experiment under construction in the Bolivian Andes, and its prototype ALPAQU…

astro-ph.HE2021

Detectability of southern gamma-ray sources beyond 100 TeV with ALPAQUITA, the prototype experiment of ALPACA

S. Kato, C. A. H. Condori, E. dela Fuente +47

Andes Large-area PArticle detector for Cosmic-ray physics and Astronomy (ALPACA) is an international experiment that applies southern very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy to…

astro-ph.IM2016

The Latin American Giant Observatory: Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)

The LAGO Collaboration, W. Alvarez, C. Alvarez +86

The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) is an extended cosmic ray observatory composed by a network of water-Cherenkov detectors spanning over different sites located at signif…

physics.ins-det2010

Charge collection in the Silicon Drift Detectors of the ALICE experiment

B. Alessandro, R. Bala, G. Batigne +26

A detailed study of charge collection efficiency has been performed on the Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) of the ALICE experiment. Three different methods to study the collected cha…

hep-ex2021

Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book

H. Aihara, A. Aranda, R. Camacho Toro +20

For the first time the scientific community in Latin America working at the forefront of research in high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics (HECAP) have come together to…

physics.ins-det2013

Noise reduction in muon tomography for detecting high density objects

M. Benettoni, G. Bettella, G. Bonomi +18

The muon tomography technique, based on multiple Coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons, has been proposed as a tool to detect the presence of high density objects inside closed vo…

physics.ins-det2014

Historical building stability monitoring by means of a cosmic ray tracking system

A. Zenoni, G. Bonomi, A. Donzella +13

Cosmic ray radiation is mostly composed, at sea level, by high energy muons, which are highly penetrating particles capable of crossing kilometers of rock. Cosmic ray radiation con…