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Published Papers

  • Soneira-Landin, C., Blanco, A., Fraile, L.M., Garzón, J.A., Kornakov, G., Lopes, L., Nouvilas, V.M., & Udías, J.M. (2025). miniTRASGO: A compact RPC tracker for cosmic ray studies. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.170511

  • Soneira-Landin, C., Blanco, A., Fraile, L.M., Garzón, J.A., Kornakov, G., Lopes, L., Michel, J., Nouvilas, V.M., & Udías, J.M. (2025). miniTRASGO: Design and initial results of a compact Resistive Plate Chamber telescope for worldwide cosmic ray monitoring. Advances in Space Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2025.07.096

  • Soneira-Landín, C., Blanco, A., Fraile, L.M., Garzón, J.A., Kornakov, G., Lopes, L., Nouvilas, V.M., & Udías, J.M. (2025). miniTRASGO: A compact RPC telescope for global cosmic ray monitoring. In Proceedings of the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025), 15–24 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland. PoS(ICRC2025)1368. (submitted)

  • Riádigos, I., González-Díaz, D., & Pérez-Muñuzuri, V. (2022). Revisiting the limits of atmospheric temperature retrieval from cosmic-ray measurements. Earth and Space Science, 9, e2021EA001982. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001982

  • García-Castro, D., Ajoor, M., Alvarez-Pol, H., Blanco, A., Cabanelas, P., Castro, E., Díaz, J., Fonte, P., Garzón, J.A., Gil, A., González-Díaz, D., Kornakov, G., Lopes, L., Palka, M., Pérez-Trigo, E., & Soriano, J. (2021). The TRASGO Project. Present status and results. Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 84, 1070–1079. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778821130093

  • Riádigos, I., on behalf of the TRAGALDABAS Collaboration (2021). Analysis of the atmospheric effect on the TRAGALDABAS high resolution Cosmic Ray detector. In Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), Madison, USA. PoS(ICRC2019)132. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0132

  • Riádigos, I., García-Castro, D., González-Díaz, D., & Pérez-Muñuzuri, V. (2020). Atmospheric temperature effect in secondary cosmic rays observed with a 2 m² ground-based tRPC detector. Earth and Space Science, 7, e2020EA001131. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001131

  • Saraiva, J.P., Blanco, A., Garzón, J.A., García-Castro, D., Lopes, L., & Villasante-Marcos, V. (2020). The TRISTAN detector—2018–2019 latitude survey of cosmic rays. Journal of Instrumentation (JINST), 15, C09024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/C09024

  • Riádigos, I., García-Castro, D., González-Díaz, D., Garzón-Heydt, J.A., Pérez-Muñuzuri, V., & the TRAGALDABAS Collaboration (2018). Study of the atmosphere with a high resolution Cosmic Ray detector. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20, EGU2018-18049. EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria.

  • Assis, P., Blanco, A., Carolino, N., Conceição, R., Cunha, O., Dobrigkeit, C., Ferreira, M., Fonte, P., Lopes, L., et al. (2018). Autonomous RPCs for a Cosmic Ray ground array. In Proceedings of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017), Bexco, Korea. PoS(ICRC2017)379.

  • Garzón, J.A., Collazo, J., Cuenca-García, J., García-Castro, D., Otero, J., Yermo, M., Blanco, J.J., Kurtukian, T., Morozova, A., Pais, M.A., Blanco, A., Fonte, P., Lopes, L., et al. (2017). TRAGALDABAS: First results on cosmic ray studies and their relation with solar activity, the Earth magnetic field and atmospheric properties. arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.07277. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07277

  • Blanco, A., Fonte, P., Lopes, L., et al. (2015). TRAGALDABAS: A new high resolution detector for the regular study of cosmic rays. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 632, 012010.

  • Blanco, A., et al. (2014). TRAGALDABAS: A new RPC based detector for the regular study of cosmic rays. Journal of Instrumentation (JINST), 9, C09027.

  • Belver, D., Blanco, A., Cabanelas, P., Díaz, J., Fonte, P., Garzón, J.A., Gil, A., González-Díaz, D., Koenig, W., Kolb, B., Kornakov, G., Lopes, L., et al. (2012). Analysis of the space-time microstructure of cosmic ray air showers using the HADES RPC TOF wall. Journal of Instrumentation (JINST), 7, P10007.

  • Blanco, A., Belver, D., Cabanelas, P., Díaz, J., Fonte, P., Garzón, J.A., Gil, A., González-Díaz, D., Koenig, W., Kolb, B., Lopes, L., et al. (2012). RPC HADES-TOF wall cosmic ray test performance. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 661, S114.

  • Belver, D., Cabanelas, P., Domínguez, D., Garzón, J.A., Kornakov, G., & Morales, M.F. (2012). TRASGO: A proposal for a timing RPC-based detector for analyzing cosmic ray air showers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 661, S163–S167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.173

  • Assis, P., Blanco, A., Brogueira, P., Cazon, L., Fonte, P., Lopes, L., Pereira, A., Pimenta, M., dos Santos, E., & Schweizer, T. (2011). R&D for an autonomous RPC station in air shower detector arrays. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2011), Beijing, China.

Ph.D. Theses

  • García Castro, Damián. Cosmic Rays' study with a TRASGO detector. PhD thesis, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Programa de Doutoramento en Física Nuclear e de Partículas, 2022. Embargo: 2023-07-22. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29288. Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional. Advisor: Juan Pablo Garzón Heydt.

  • Fontenla Barba, Yanis. Studies on the composition and energy of secondary cosmic rays with the Tragaldabas detector. PhD thesis, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro Internacional de Estudos de Doutoramento e Avanzados (CIEDUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional en Ciencias e Tecnoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Programa de Doutoramento en Física Nuclear e de Partículas, 2019. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20655. Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional. Advisors: Juan Antonio Garzón Heydt, Pablo Cabanelas Eiras.

  • Ajoor, Marwan Yassir Kamel. Study of Cosmic Ray data with the TRISTAN and TRAGALDABAS detection systems. PhD thesis, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Programa de Doutoramento en Física Nuclear e de Partículas, 2022. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/28824. Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional. Advisors: Juan Pablo Garzón Heydt, Pablo Cabanelas Eiras.

  • Cuenca García, José Javier. Simulation and reconstruction algorithms for a commercial muon tomography system. PhD thesis, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro Internacional de Estudos de Doutoramento e Avanzados (CIEDUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional en Ciencias e Tecnoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

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