2018/01/15 by Theodore Avgitas, Avgitas, Theodore, G. Bourlis +15
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Particle Detector Development and Performance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1801.04768
openalex publication_date 2018/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Three autonomous HELYCON stations have been installed, calibrated and operated at the Hellenic Open University campus, detecting cosmic ray air showers. A software package for the detailed simulation of the detectors' response and the stations' operation has been developed. In this work we present the results of the analysis of the data collected by the stations during a period of one year and a half. The performance of the telescope is compared and found in very good agreement with the predictions of the simulation package. The angular resolution of each autonomous station is 3 to 5 degrees depending on the station geometry. In addition, by analyzing data from showers detected synchronously by more than one station, we evaluate the performance of the telescope in detecting very high energy (E > 5PeV) cosmic rays.