Extreme Energy Events Project: Construction of the detectors and installation in Italian High Schools

The EEE Project, conceived by its leader Antonino Zichichi, aims to detect Extreme Energy Events of cosmic rays with an array of muon telescopes distributed over the Italian territory. The Project involves Italian High Schools in order to introduce young people to Physics, also countervailing the re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Abbrescia, M, Zichichi, A, An, S, Antolini, R, Badalà, A, Baldini Ferroli, R, Bencivenni, G, Blanco, F, Bressan, E, Chiavassa, A, Chiri, C, Cifarelli, L, Cindolo, F, Coccia, E, De Pasquale, S, Di Giovanni, A, D’Incecco, M, Fabbri, F L, Frolov, V, Garbini, M, Gustavino, C, Hatzifotiadou, D, Imponente, G, Kim, J, La Rocca, P, Librizzi, F, Maggiora, A, Menghetti, H, Miozzi, S, Moro, R, Panareo, M, Pappalardo, G S, Piragino, G, Riggi, F, Romano, F, Sartorelli, G, Sbarra, C, Selvi, M, Serci, S, Williams, C, Zuyeuski, R
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
Materias:
Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.01.042
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1097408
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Sumario:The EEE Project, conceived by its leader Antonino Zichichi, aims to detect Extreme Energy Events of cosmic rays with an array of muon telescopes distributed over the Italian territory. The Project involves Italian High Schools in order to introduce young people to Physics, also countervailing the recent crisis of university scientific classes inscriptions. The detectors for the EEE telescopes are Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) and have been constructed by teams of High School students who went in shift at the CERN laboratories. The mechanics and the electronics were developed by groups of researchers from CERN, the Italian Centro Fermi and INFN. The first group of schools of the EEE Project has inaugurated their telescopes recently. A status report of the Project and the preliminary results are presented.

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