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

TL;DR

The LAGO observatory is a large-scale network of water-Cherenkov detectors across Latin America, designed to study cosmic rays, space weather, and atmospheric radiation with high temporal resolution, involving international collaboration.

Contribution

This paper reports on the contributions of the LAGO project to the 2015 ICRC, highlighting its extensive detector network and research in cosmic rays, space weather, and atmospheric radiation.

Findings

Extensive detector network across Latin America.

Detailed measurements of ground-level radiation flux.

Collaborative international research effort.

Abstract

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 significantly different altitudes (from sea level up to more than $5000$\,m a.s.l.) and latitudes across Latin America, covering a huge range of geomagnetic rigidity cut-offs and atmospheric absorption/reaction levels. This detection network is designed to measure the temporal evolution of the radiation flux at ground level with extreme detail. The LAGO project is mainly oriented to perform basic research in three branches: high energy phenomena, space weather and atmospheric radiation at ground level. LAGO is built and operated by the LAGO Collaboration, a non-centralized collaborative union of more than 30 institutions from ten countries. These are the contributions of the LAGO Collaboration to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands