Time correlation measurements from extensive air showers detected by the EEE telescopes

Abbrescia, M.; Agócs, Ádám; Aiola, S.; Antolini, R.; Avanzini, C.; Ferroli, R. Baldini; Bencivenni, G.; Bressan, E.; Чиавасса, А.; Cicalò, C.; Coccia, E.; Gruttola, D. De; 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:10.1140/epjp/i2013-13148-3

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“…The EEE experiment is currently carrying out a large variety of measurements on cosmic rays. In particular, the topology of the array offers both the possibility to study the local cosmic rays flux, measured by means of single telescopes (see, for instance [11,12]), and to detect high or very high energy atmospheric showers (known as Extensive Air Showers), by searching events coincident in time across telescopes located few hundred meters up to few kilometers apart [13]. Moreover, due to the large surface spanned, EEE is in an almost unique condition to search for large distance correlations between showers, namely events detected almost at the same time in telescopes hundreds of kilometers apart, which would be potentially very interesting due to their peculiar origin [14].…”

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New high precision measurements of the cosmic charged particle rate beyond the Arctic Circle with the PolarquEEEst experiment

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The goal of the PolarquEEEst experiment was to measure the cosmic charged particle rate at latitudes greater than 66$$^{\circ }$$∘ N, where no systematic and accurate measurements at sea level have ever been performed. A latitude range well above the Arctic Circle was explored on board of a sailboat, up to the unprecedented northernmost value of $$82^{\circ }07^{\prime }$$82∘07′ N. In this paper a description of the experimental set-up is reported, then the procedures for calibration and data analysis are described in detail. The results show that the rate measured in this latitude range stays constant within a novel accuracy of $$\pm 1$$±1%.

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“…Preliminary results from the EEE Project have been already reported during the past years [9][10][11][12]. In 2014 the EEE Project received a new boost with the organization of simultaneous and centralized data taking with the whole telescope array.…”

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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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“…A more complete presentation of the results published by the collaboration can been found in refs. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. As discussed in the introduction, the EEE network is able to perform several kinds of physics analyses.…”

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The EEE Project: a sparse array of telescopes for the measurement of cosmic ray muons

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A: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is meant to be the most extensive experiment to detect secondary cosmic particles in Italy. To this aim, more than 50 telescopes have been built at CERN and installed in high schools distributed all over the Italian territory. Each EEE telescope comprises three large area Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) and is capable of reconstructing the trajectories of the charged particles traversing it with a good angular resolution. The excellent performance of the EEE telescopes allows a large variety of studies, from measuring the local muon flux in a single telescope, to detecting extensive air showers producing time correlations in the same metropolitan area, to searching for large-scale correlations between showers detected in telescopes tens, hundreds or thousands of kilometers apart. In addition to its scientific goal, the EEE Project also has an educational and outreach objective, its aim being to motivate young people by involving them directly in a real experiment. High school students and teachers are involved in the construction, testing and start-up of the EEE telescope in their school, then in its maintenance and data-acquisition, and later in the analysis of the data. During the last couple of years a great boost has been given to the EEE Project through the organization of simultaneous and centralized data taking with the whole telescope array. The raw data from all telescopes are transferred to CNAF (Bologna), where they are reconstructed and stored. The data are currently being analyzed, looking at various topics: variation of the rate of cosmic muons with time, upward going muons, muon lifetime, search for anisotropies in the muon angular distribution and for time coincidences between stations. In this paper an overall description of the experiment is given, including the design, construction and performance of the telescopes. The operation of the whole array is also presented by showing the most recent physics results. K: Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Large detector-systems performance; Resistive-plate chambers 2016 JINST 11 C12056 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 The EEE Experiment 2 2.1 General description of the Project 2 2.2 Detector specifications 3 2.3 Current status of the Project 4 3 Performance of the EEE telescopes 4 4 Examples of physics studies 6 5 Conclusions 8

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Time correlation measurements from extensive air showers detected by the EEE telescopes

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

New high precision measurements of the cosmic charged particle rate beyond the Arctic Circle with the PolarquEEEst experiment

New high precision measurements of the cosmic charged particle rate beyond the Arctic Circle with the PolarquEEEst experiment

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

The EEE Project: a sparse array of telescopes for the measurement of cosmic ray muons

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