Simulations for MARTA (Muon Auger RPC for the Tank Array)

Full text: The Muon Auger RPC for the Tank Array (MARTA) detector is being studied as part of the Pierre Auger Observatory upgrade. The aim of this detector is to provide a very good capability to discriminate muons in an air shower. This property is very important for it allows Auger to investigate the changes in the hadronic interactions at high energies; to improve the energy evolution by better understanding the muon component of the showers, as well as the missing energy into neutrinos; to increase the primary photon discrimination. A simulation package was developed to integrate with the regular Auger software to describe the behaviour of the detector and allow the fine running of the parameters that define the detector. This package use Geant4 to describe the detector and the electronics response. However this package is very computer intensive so we are developing a fast version of simulation, using Python as the program language. In this paper we describe some of physics parameters results provided by the simulation. (author)