On the use of the South-American neutron monitors

• Main Authors: Cordaro, E.G., Storini, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Societa italiana di fisica 2001
• Subjects: 551.5276 Radiazioni cosmiche (Include il rumore cosmico) (Classificare qui i raggi cosmici); King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/14708/; http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/14708/1/ncc8760.pdf; https://www.sif.it/riviste/sif/ncc/econtents/2001/024/04-05/article/14

Cosmic ray scientific community deserves special attention to the Chacaltaya site for its over 5 km altitude. In this site, a neutron monitor of the IGY type operated from 1960 to 1969, and the one of the NM-64 type since 1966 (16.31◦ S, 291.85◦E, height: about 5200 m a.s.l.). We discuss the relevance of such kind of detector when it is integrated with the other South-American neutron monitors: a) LARC (62.20◦S, 301.04◦E, height: 40 m a.s.l., King George Island, Antarctica; operating since 1991); b) LOS CERRILLOS (33.45◦S, 289.40◦E, height: 570 m a.s.l., Santiago, Chile; to be installed in the near future); c) HUANCAYO (12.03◦S, 284.67◦E, height: 3400 m a.s.l., Huancayo, Peru; hoping to recover its acquired data).