A multigap resistive plate chamber array for the Extreme Energy Events project

Gruttola, D. De; Abbrescia, M.; Agócs, Ádám; Aiola, S.; Antolini, R.; Avanzini, C.; Ferroli, R. Baldini; Bencivenni, G.; Bressan, E.; Чиавасса, А.; Cicalò, C.; Coccia, E.; Pasquale, S. De; Giovanni, A. Di; D’Incecco, M.; Dreucci, M.; Fabbri, F.; Фролов, В.; Garbini, M.; Gemme, G.; Gnesi, I.; Gustavino, C.; Hatzifotiadou, D.; Li, S.; Librizzi, F.; Maggiora, A.; Massai, M.M.; Miozzi, S.; Panareo, M.; Paoletti, R.; Perasso, L.; Pilo, F.; Piragino, G.; Regano, A.; Riggi, F.; Righini, Giancarlo C.; Sartorelli, G.; Scapparone, E.; Selvi, M.; Serci, S.; Siddi, E.; Spandre, G.; Squarcia, S.; Taiuti, M.; Tosello, F.; Votano, L.; Williams, M.C.S.; Yanez, G.; Zichichi, A.; Zouyevski, R.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/10/c10024

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“…The new statistics now available has opened up the possibility for new studies and has improved the quality of the preliminary results already published such as the detection of EAS [12] or the study of Forbush decreases [8,10]. In this section we will focus on a few examples of data analyses, trying to emphasize the importance of the telescope performance already discussed.…”

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Operation and performance of the EEE network array for the detection of cosmic rays

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“…The dependence of the efficiency from the applied HV has been reported for example in Refs. [2,[6][7][8].…”

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Operation and performance of the EEE network array for the detection of cosmic rays

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“…Preliminary results from the Pilot Run and Run1 on main topics such as EAS detections and studies of the cosmic ray flux, have been reported in [12][13][14]16]; two studies on the anisotropies research for the low energy primaries [17], and the upward-going particles [18] have been already published.…”

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Recent results and performance of the multi-gap resistive plate chambers network for the EEE Project

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A: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is devoted to the study of Extensive Atmospheric Showers through a network of muon telescopes, installed in High Schools, with the further aim of introducing young students to particle and astroparticle physics. Each telescope is a tracking detector composed of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) with an active area of 1.60 × 0.80 m 2 . Their characteristics are similar to the ones built for the Time Of Flight array of the ALICE Experimentat LHC. The EEE Project started with a few pilot towns, where the telescopes have been taking data since 2008, and it has been constantly extended, reaching at present more than 50 MRPCs telescopes. They are spread across Italy with two additional stations at CERN, covering an area of around 3 × 10 5 km 2 , with a total surface area for all the MRPCs of 190 m 2 . A comprehensive description of the MRPCs network is reported here: efficiency, time and spatial resolution measured using cosmic rays hitting the telescopes. The most recent results on the detector and physics performance from a series of coordinated data acquisition periods are also presented. K: Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Large detector-systems performance; Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors); Resistive-plate chambers JINST 11 C11005Contents 1 The EEE Project 1 2 The MRPCs cosmic ray network 2 2.1 The MRPCs telescope stations 2 2.2 The coordinated data acquisition 3 3 The EEE Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers performance 3 3.1 The single MRPC performance 3 3.2 The telescope performance measured using cosmic rays 3 4 Recent Physics Results 5

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“…The cosmic ray telescopes employed by the EEE Collaboration have been described in detail in many previous papers [16][17][18][19][20][21]. Recently, a review of the overall performance of such devices has been published [22].…”

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The EEE MRPC telescopes as tracking tools to monitor building stability with cosmic muons

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This paper discusses the possibility to employ the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project as muon tracking detectors to monitor the long term stability of civil buildings and structures when used in conjunction with additional detectors, to reconstruct the average direction of the cosmic muon tracks passing through both devices and any small variation over long time acquisition periods. The performance of such setup is discussed and preliminary experimental coincidence results obtained with a 40 × 60 cm 2 scintillator detector operated in the same building with one of the EEE telescopes, at about 15 m vertical distance from it, are presented. Simple Monte Carlo and GEANT simulations were also carried out to evaluate typical acceptance values for the operating conditions employed so far, to extrapolate to other geometrical configurations, and to evaluate multiple scattering effects.

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A multigap resistive plate chamber array for the Extreme Energy Events project

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Operation and performance of the EEE network array for the detection of cosmic rays

Operation and performance of the EEE network array for the detection of cosmic rays

Recent results and performance of the multi-gap resistive plate chambers network for the EEE Project

The EEE MRPC telescopes as tracking tools to monitor building stability with cosmic muons

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