| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 145, 2017
ISVHECRI 2016 – XIX International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
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| Article Number | 05003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Cosmic Ray and Gamma-Ray Experiments | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714505003 | |
| Published online | 26 June 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714505003
The ARGO-YBJ legacy to next generation wide field-of-view experiments
INFN - Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
a e-mail: disciascio@roma2.infn.it
Published online: 26 June 2017
The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been in stable data taking for more than 5 years at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Observatory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l., 606 g/cm2). With a duty-cycle greater than 86% the detector collected about 5×1011 events in a wide energy range, from few hundreds GeV up to about 10 PeV. High altitude location and detector features make ARGO-YBJ capable of investigating a wide range of important issues in Cosmic Ray and Astroparticle Physics by imaging the front of atmospheric showers with unprecedented resolution and detail. In this contribution some of the latest physics results obtained by ARGO-YBJ in gamma-ray astronomy and in cosmic ray physics are summarized. The prospects of TeV gamma-ray observations with new ground-based wide field-of-view detectors are presented.
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