Air Shower Detection and Sky Survey with the ARGO-YBJ Experiment
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita, via per Arnesano, 73100 Lecce (Italy)
The ARGO-YBJ detector, located in Tibet at 4300 m a.s.l., is a full-coverage Extensive Air-Shower Array consisting of a single layer of Resistive Plate Chambers. The main scientific goals of the experiment are the study of cosmic rays and the detection of astrophysical {gamma} radiation at few hundreds GeV energy threshold. About 30% of the foreseen active area is in stable data taking since December 2004. The analysis of first data shows that the detector is working properly and that ARGO-YBJ has the capability to image extensive air showers with unprecedented granularity and to monitor continuously the Northern Sky searching for steady and transient sources of {gamma}-rays. In this paper we report some results about the air shower detection and the first sky map covering the declination band -20 deg. < {delta} <80 deg.
- OSTI ID:
- 20798048
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 815, Issue 1; Conference: 25. international conference on physics in collision, Prague (Czech Republic), 5-9 Jul 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2173596; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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