The use of RPC in the ARGO-YBJ project

✍ Scribed by C. Bacci; K.Z. Bao; F. Barone; B. Bartoli; D. Bastieri; P. Bernardini; S. Bussino; E. Calloni; B.Y. Cao; R. Cardarelli; S. Catalanotti; A. Cavaliere; F. Cesaroni; P. Creti; Danzengluobu; B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli; M. De Vincenzi; T. Di Girolamo; G. Di Sciascio; Z.Y. Feng; Y. Fu; X.Y. Gao; Q.X. Geng; H.W. Guo; Q. Huang; H.H. He; M. He; M. Iacovacci; N. Iucci; H.Y. Jai; F.M. Kong; H.H. Kuang; Labaciren; B. Li; J.Y. Li; Z.Q. Liu; H. Lu; X.H. Ma; C. Marmolino; G. Mancarella; S.M. Mari; D. Martello; G. Marsella; D.M. Mei; X.R. Meng; A. Morselli; L. Milano; J. Mu; M. Oliviero; P. Padovani; M. Panareo; M. Parisi; Z.R. Peng; P. Pistilli; R. Santonico; G. Sartori; C. Sbarra; G. Severino; R. Sparvoli; C. Stanescu; M. Storini; P.R. Shen; L.R. Sun; S.C. Sun; J. Su; A. Surdo; Y.H. Tan; S. Vernetto; M. Vietri; C.R. Wang; C.R. Wang; F. Wang; H.Y. Wang; Y.N. Wei; H.T. Yang; W.K. Yao; G.C. Yu; A.F. Yuan; X.D. Yue; H.M. Zhang; J.L. Zhang; N.J. Zhang; T.J. Zhang; X.Y. Zhang; Zhaxiciren; Zhaxisangzhu; Q.Q. Zhu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 476 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00520-4

✦ Synopsis

We present the ARGO-YBJ experiment, a full coverage detector placed at high altitude (,~ 4300 m a.s.1.) that exploits the RPC technique. Results of a test experiment performed at Yanbajing site, with a full coverage RPC carpet of 50 'm 2 are also presented.