Highlights from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

TL;DR

The ARGO-YBJ experiment, a high-altitude, full-coverage detector operational since 2007, has provided significant results in cosmic ray physics and gamma-ray astronomy, especially after three years of stable data collection.

Contribution

This paper summarizes the gamma-ray astronomy results obtained from the ARGO-YBJ experiment over three years of stable operation.

Findings

Significant gamma-ray astronomy results achieved

Stable data collection since 2007 at high altitude

Contributions to cosmic ray physics and gamma-ray observations

Abstract

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a multipurpose detector exploiting the full coverage approach at very high altitude. The apparatus, in stable data taking since November 2007 with an energy threshold of a few hundreds of GeV and a duty-cycle of about 90 %, is located at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l., 606 g/cm2). A number of interesting results are available in Cosmic Ray Physics and in Gamma Ray Astronomy after the first 3 years of stable data taking. In this paper Gamma-Ray Astronomy results are summarized.