Cosmic Ray physics with ARGO-YBJ

Authors :: M. Iacovacci
B. Bartoli
S. Catalanotti
T. Di Girolamo
B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli
S. Mastroianni
Iacovacci, M.
Bartoli, B.
Catalanotti, S.
Di Girolamo, T.
D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B.
Mastroianni, S.
Source :: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. :157-162
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2013.
Abstract: The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been in stable data taking from November 2007 till February 2013 at the Yang-BaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Tibet, P.R.China, 4300 m a.s.l.). It exploits the full coverage and the high altitude to detect air showers with an energy threshold as low as a few hundred GeV. The detector is made of a single layer of RPCs operated in streamer mode, fully instrumenting a central carpet of about 5800 m 2 . A guard ring extends the partially instrumented area to about 11 , 000 m 2 . The main results so far achieved on Cosmic Ray physics are reported.