The use of RPC in the ARGO-YBJ project

Authors
Bacci, C Bao, KZ Barone, F Bartoli, B Bastieri, D Bernardini, P Bussino, S Calloni, E Cao, BY Cardarelli, R Catalanotti, S Cavaliere, A Cesaroni, F Creti, P",Danzengluobu,"Piazzoli, BD De Vincenzi, M Di Girolamo, T Di Sciascio, G Feng, ZY Fu, Y Gao, XY Geng, QX Guo, HW Huang, Q He, HH He, M Iacovacci, M Iucci, N Jai, HY Kong, FM Kuang, HH",Labaciren,"Li, B Li, JY Liu, ZQ Lu, H Ma, XH Marmolino, C Mancarella, G Mari, SM Martello, D Marsella, G Mei, DM Meng, XR Morselli, A Milano, L Mu, J Oliviero, M Padovani, P Panareo, M Parisi, M Peng, ZR Pistilli, P Santonico, R Sartori, G Sbarra, C Severino, G Sparvoli, R Stanescu, C Storini, M Shen, PR Sun, LR Sun, SC Su, J Surdo, A Tan, YH Vernetto, S Vietri, M Wang, CR Wang, F Wang, HY Wei, YN Yang, HT Yao, QK Yu, GC Yuan, AF Yue, XD Zhang, HM Zhang, JL Zhang, NJ Zhang, TJ Zhang, XY",Zhaxiciren,Zhaxisangzhu,"Zhu, QQ
Citation
C. Bacci et al., The use of RPC in the ARGO-YBJ project, NUCL PH B-P, 78, 1999, pp. 38-43
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
78
Year of publication
1999
Pages
38 - 43
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(199908)78:<38:TUORIT>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We present the ARGO-YBJ experiment, a full coverage detector placed at high altitude (similar to 4300 m a.s.l.) that exploits the RPC technique. Resul ts of a test experiment performed at Yanbajing site, with a full coverage R PC carpet of 50 m(2) are also presented.