Scaler mode technique for the ARGO-YBJ detector

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Scaler mode technique for the ARGO-YBJ detector

G. Aielli C. Bacci F. Barone B. Bartoli P. Bernardini X.j. Bi C. Bleve P. Branchini A. Budano S. Bussino A.k. Calabrese Melcarne P. Camarri Z. Cao A. Cappa R. Cardarelli S. Catalanotti C. Cattaneo S. Cavaliere P. Celio S.z. Chen N. Cheng P. Creti S.w. Cui G. Cusumano B.z. Dai G. D’alí Staiti Null Danzengluobu M. Dattoli I. De Mitri R. De Rosa B. D’ettorre Piazzoli M. De Vincenzi T. Di Girolamo X.h. Ding G. Di Sciascio C.f. Feng Zhaoyang Feng Zhenyong Feng C. Ferrigno F. Galeazzi P. Galeotti X.y. Gao R. Gargana F. Garufi Q.b. Gou H.h. He Haibing Hu Hongbo Hu Q. Huang M. Iacovacci I. James H.y. Jia Null Labaciren H.j. Li J.y. Li B. Liberti G. Liguori C.q. Liu J. Liu H. Lu G. Mancarella S.m. Mari G. Marsella D. Martello S. Mastroianni X.r. Meng J. Mu L. Nicastro C.c. Ning L. Palummo M. Panareo L. Perrone P. Pistilli X.b. Qu E. Rossi F. Ruggieri L. Saggese P. Salvini R. Santonico A. Segreto P.r. Shen X.d. Sheng F. Shi C. Stanescu A. Surdo Y.h. Tan P. Vallania S. Vernetto C. Vigorito H. Wang Y.g. Wang C.y. Wu H.r. Wu B. Xu L. Xue H.t. Yang Q.y. Yang X.c. Yang G.c. Yu A.f. Yuan M. Zha H.m. Zhang J.l. Zhang L. Zhang P. Zhang X.y. Zhang Y. Zhang Null Zhaxisangzhu X.x. Zhou F.r. Zhu Q.q. Zhu G. Zizzi

subject

Gamma ray burst Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Camere a piani resistivi FOS: Physical sciences Cosmic ray Astrophysics Rivelatori di sciami estesi 01 natural sciences Raggi cosmici Optics Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica 0103 physical sciences Limit (music)010303 astronomy & astrophysics Argo Ground plane gamma ray bursts cosmic rays extended air showers Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics business.industry Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Astrophysics (astro-ph)Detector Mode (statistics)Astronomy and Astrophysics Sciami estesi business Gamma-ray burst Energy (signal processing)

description

The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been designed to study the Extensive Air Showers with an energy threshold lower than that of the existing arrays by exploiting the high altitude location(4300 m a.s.l. in Tibet, P.R. China) and the full ground plane coverage. The lower energy limit of the detector (E $\sim$ 1 GeV) is reached by the scaler mode technique, i.e. recording the counting rate at fixed time intervals. At these energies, transient signals due to local (e.g. Forbush Decreases) and cosmological (e.g. Gamma Ray Bursts) phenomena are expected as a significant variation of the counting rate compared to the background. In this paper the performance of the ARGO-YBJ detector operating in scaler mode is described and discussed.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2008-07-14

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/11179