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ARGO-YBJ experiment and the Tev gamma astronomy
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- The ARGO-YBJ detector is an extensive air shower array consisting of a carpet of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Very high energy (VHE) gamma ray astronomy is the main scientific goal of this Chinese-Italian experiment. High altitude and full coverage ensure a low energy threshold (few hundreds of GeV for primary photons), high duty-cycle and large field of view allow a continuous sky survey in the declination range from −10° to +70°. Also many features of the high energy cosmic rays are studied by ARGO-YBJ exploiting the unprecented shower reconstruction.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Gamma ray Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Range (particle radiation)
Photon
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
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Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Detector
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy
Gamma-ray astronomy
Astrophysics
Declination
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Astronomia gamma
Argo-Ybj
Sciami estesi
Air shower
Raggi cosmici
Sky
Extensive Air shower
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c458cf5968adab514d0537a14499a416