Experimental Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics: ARGO
The experiment, located at YangBaJing (4300m. a.s.l. ) in Tibet, is focused either on cosmic ray physics and on gamma ray astronomy in an energetic range between the one covered by satellite experiments and that typical of extensive air shower array detectors. The apparatus consists of a carpet of Resistive Plate Chambers of 78x74 m**2 with an active surface of about 92% and has been in full acquisition from 2007 to February 2013.
The Pavia group is involved in the reconstruction and monitor software and in the analysis of the low energy data (solar physics, GRB and correlation with atmospheric electric field variations). The experiment concluded the data taking in February 2013, while the analysis of acquired data is still ongoing.
Staff: Elio Giroletti, Paola Salvini
