Data di Pubblicazione:
2012
Abstract:
The charge readout of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) is implemented in the ARGO-YBJ experiment to measure the charged particle density of the shower front up to 10 4/m 2, enabling the study of the primary cosmic rays with energies in the knee region. As the first time for RPCs being used this way, a telescope with RPCs and scintillation detectors is setup to calibrate the number of charged particles hitting a RPC versus its charge readout. Air shower particles are taken as the calibration beam. The telescope was tested at sea level and then moved to the ARGO-YBJ site for coincident operation with the ARGO-YBJ experiment. The charge readout shows good linearity with the particle density in the dynamic range (up to 200/m 2). © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
Air showers, Charge readout, Dynamic range, Knee regions, Particle densities, Resistive plate chambers; Calibration, Charged particles, Cosmic rays, Experiments, Optical telescopes, Sea level, Telescopes; Particle spectrometers
Elenco autori:
G. b. Aielli;C. d. Bacci;B. f. Bartoli;P. h. Bernardini;X. Bi;C. h. Bleve;P. Branchini;A. Budano;S. d. Bussino;A. C. Melcarne;P. b. Camarri;Z. Cao;A. l. Cappa;R. Cardarelli;S. f. Catalanotti;C. Cattaneo;P. d. Celio;S. Chen;T. Chen;Y. Chen;N. Cheng;P. Creti;S. Cui;B. Dai;G. r. D'Alí; Danzengluobus;M. l. t;I. h. De;B. f. D'Ettorre;M. d. De;T. f. Di;X. Ding;G. D. Sciascio;C. Feng;Z. Feng;Z. Feng;F. Galeazzi;P. t. Galeotti;R. Gargana;Q. Gou;Y. Guo;H. He;H. Hu;H. Hu;Q. Huang;M. f. Iacovacci;R. b. Iuppa;I. d. James;H. Jia; Labacirens;H. Li;J. Li;X. Li;B. Liberti;G. n. Liguori;C. Liu;C. Liu;M. Liu;J. Liu;H. Lu;X. Ma;G. h. Mancarella;S. d. Mari;G. w. Marsella;D. h. Martello;S. Mastroianni;X. Meng;P. d. Montini;C. Ning;A. x. Pagliaro;M. w. Panareo;L. w. Perrone;P. d. Pistilli;X. Qu;E. Rossi;F. Ruggieri;L. f. Saggese;P. Salvini;R. b. Santonico;P. Shen;X. Sheng;F. Shi;C. Stanescu;A. Surdo;Y. Tan;P. l. Vallania;S. l. Vernetto;C. l. Vigorito;B. Wang;H. Wang;C. Wu;H. Wu;B. Xu;L. Xue;Y. Yan;Q. Yang;X. Yang;A. Yuan;M. Zha;H. Zhang;J. Zhang;J. Zhang;L. Zhang;P. Zhang;X. Zhang;Y. Zhang; Zhaxisangzhus;X. Zhou;F. Zhu;Q. Zhu;G. h. Zizzi
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