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Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ detector.
Speakers
- Dr. Piero VALLANIA
Primary authors
- Dr. Piero VALLANIA (IFSI-INAF and INFN, Torino)
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)
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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