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The EEE Project

Instrumentation and Detectors 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

The new experiment ``Extreme Energy Events'' (EEE) to detect extensive air showers through muon detection is starting in Italy. The use of particle detectors based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) will allow to determine with a very high accuracy the direction of the axis of cosmic ray showers initiated by primaries of ultra-high energy, together with a high temporal resolution. The installation of many of such 'telescopes' in numerous High Schools scattered all over the Italian territory will also allow to investigate coincidences between multiple primaries producing distant showers. Here we present the experimental apparatus and its tasks.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0607027,
  title  = {The EEE Project},
  author = {R. Antolini and R. Baldini Ferroli and M. Caporaloni and A. Chiavassa and L. Cifarelli and F. Cindolo and E. Coccia and S. De Pasquale and M. Garbini and C. Gustavino and D. Hatzifotiadou and G. Imponente and H. Menghetti and G. Piragino and G. Sartorelli and M. Selvi and C. Williams and A. Zichichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0607027},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 29th ICRC 2005, Pune, India