Speaker
Dr
Roberto Iuppa
(University & INFN of Rome Tor Vergata)
Description
The ARGO-YBJ experiment consists of a 5700 m2 single layer of Resistive
Plate Chambers situated at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Tibet (P.R. of China), 4300
meters a.s.l. A partially instrumented guard ring (1700 m2) around the
central zone extends the instrumented area up to 11000 m2.
The experiment is sensitive to extensive air showers initiated by
primaries in the 10^9-10^15 eV energy range. A review of the most
important results obtained in gamma- and cosmic-ray physics will
be given, focusing on the new information that they give on the galaxy
and the solar system.
Primary author
Dr
Roberto Iuppa
(University & INFN of Rome Tor Vergata)
Co-author
ARGO-YBJ Collaboration
(INFN-IHEP)
