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The ARGO-YBJ experiment is an extensive air shower array with full coverage RPC detectors located at Yangbajing (4300 m asl, Tibet, China). It is operated with high duty cycle (>86%) and a large field of view ($\sim$ 2sr). It continuously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Z. Cao , S. Z. Chen

The study of high energy gamma-ray bursts can be performed by large area air shower arrays operating at very high mountain altitudes. ARGO-YBJ is a detector optimized to observe small size air showers, to be constructed at the Yangbajing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 YBJ Collaboration , presented by S. Vernetto

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is almost completely installed at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m a.s.l., Tibet, P.R. China). The lower energy limit of the detector (E $\sim$ 1 GeV) is reached with the scaler mode, i.e., recording the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Di Sciascio , T. Di Girolamo

The ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) experiment is designed for very high energy $\gamma$-astronomy and cosmic ray researches. Due to the full coverage of a large area ($5600 m^2$) with resistive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 YBJ Collaboration , G. Aielli

ARGO-YBJ, located at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Observatory (4300 m a.s.l., Tibet, China), is a full coverage air shower array, with an energy threshold of 300 GeV for gamma-ray astronomy. Most of the recorded events are single front…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Xunxiu Zhou , Lanlan Gao , Yu Zhang , Yiqing Guo , Qingqi Zhu , Huanyu Jia , Daihui Huang

The primary proton spectrum up to 100 TeV has been investigated by balloon- and satellite-borne instruments. Above this energy range only ground-based air shower arrays can measure the cosmic ray spectrum with a technique moderately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 G. Di Sciascio

ARGO-YBJ is a full coverage air shower detector currently under construction at the Yangbajing Laboratory (4300 m a.s.l., Tibet, China). First data obtained with a subset of the apparatus will be available in summer 2003 while the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Vernetto , C. Bleve , T. Di Girolamo , G Di Sciascio , D. Martello

Cosmic ray antiprotons provide an important probe for the study of cosmic-ray propagation in the interstellar space and to investigate the existence of Galactic dark matter. The ARGO-YBJ experiment, located at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Di Sciascio , R. Iuppa , the ARGO-YBJ collaboration

The ARGO-YBJ detector, located at high altitude in the Cosmic Ray Observatory of Yangbajing in Tibet (4300 m asl, about 600 g/cm2 of atmospheric depth) provides the opportunity to study, with unprecedented resolution, the cosmic ray physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. Di Sciascio

We report on the search for Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the energy range 1-100 GeV in coincidence with the prompt emission detected by satellites using the Astrophysical Radiation with Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing (ARGO-YBJ) air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 YBJ Collaboration , G. Aielli

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a full coverage air shower detector operated at the Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory. The detector has been in stable data taking in its full configuration since November 2007 to February 2013. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. M. Mari , P. Montini

Aiming at the observation of cosmic-ray chemical composition at the "knee" energy region, we have been developinga new type air-shower core detector (YAC, Yangbajing Air shower Core detector array) to be set up at Yangbajing (90.522$^\circ$…

We are now operating the 500 m2 Yangbajing air-shower core (YAC-II) array near the center of the Tibet air-shower array (Tibet-III) to observe cosmic-ray chemical composition at the knee energy region since February 2011. The first step of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-14 gamma Collaboration

A hybrid experiment has been started by AS{\gamma} collaboration at Tibet, China, since May 2009, that consists of a burst-detector-grid (YAC, Yangbajing Air shower Core array) and the Tibet air-shower array (Tibet-III). The first step of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-14 gamma Collaboration

Since 1996, a hybrid experiment consisting of an emulsion chamber and a burst detector array and the Tibet-II air shower array has been operated at Yangbajing (4300 m above sea level) in Tibet. This experiment can detect air-shower cores,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 M. Amenomori , S. Ayabe , Caidong

The ARGO--YBJ experiment has been in stable data taking for more than five years at the Yangbajing cosmic ray observatory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l.). The detector collected about $5\times10^{11}$ events in a wide energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-04 Paolo Montini

Gamma ray source detection above 30TeV is an encouraging approach for finding galactic cosmic ray origins. All sky survey for gamma ray sources using wide field of view detector is essential for population accumulation for various types of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Zhen Cao