3-11 July 2007
Merida, Mexico
Mexico/General timezone
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Merida, Mexico - Regency (Hyatt)

Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ detector.

Speakers

  • Dr. Piero VALLANIA

Primary authors

Co-authors

  • Dr. Tristano DI GIROLAMO (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Napoli and INFN, Sezione di Napoli)
  • Dr. Carlo VIGORITO (Dipartimento di Fisica Generale dell'Università di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino)

Abstract content

ARGO-YBJ is a "full coverage" air shower detector consisting of a 6700 m^2 carpet of Resistive Plate Chambers, located at Yangbajing (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l.). Its large field of view (~2 sr) makes ARGO-YBJ particularly suitable to detect unpredictable and short duration events such as Gamma Ray Bursts. ARGO-YBJ can search for GRBs using two detection techniques: the "Scaler Mode",
working in the GeV energy range, and the "Shower Mode", at energies above
a few hundreds of GeV. The results of the search for emission from GRBs in coincidence with satellite detections are presented.

If this papers is presented for a collaboration, please specify the collaboration

ARGO-YBJ

Reference

Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference; Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia (eds.); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008; Vol. 3 (OG part 2), pages 1163-1166