• Title of article

    Study of RPC gas mixtures for the ARGO-YBJ experiment

  • Author/Authors

    Bartoli، نويسنده , , B and Buonomo، نويسنده , , R and Calloni، نويسنده , , E and Catalanotti، نويسنده , , S and D’Ettore Piazzoli، نويسنده , , B and Di Sciascio، نويسنده , , G and Iacovacci، نويسنده , , M، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    35
  • To page
    39
  • Abstract
    The ARGO-YBJ experiment consists of a Resistive Plate Counter (RPC) carpet to be operated at the Yangbajing laboratory (Tibet, China), 4300 m a.s.l., and devoted to the detection of showers initiated by photon primaries in the energy range 100 GeV–20 TeV. The measurement technique, namely the timing on the shower front with a few tens of particles, requires RPC operation with 1 ns time resolution, low strip multiplicity, high efficiency and low single counting rate. We have tested RPCs with many gas mixtures, at sea level, in order to optimize these parameters. The results of this study are reported here.
  • Keywords
    Gamma-ray astronomy , Extensive Air Shower , ARGO-YBJ , RPCs
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Record number

    2188252