Extreme Energy Events Project: Construction of the detectors and installation in Italian High Schools
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- 作者：M. Abbrescia ; S. An ; R. Antolini ; A. Badalà ; R. Baldini Ferroli ; G. Bencivenni ; F. Blanco ; E. Bressan ; A. Chiavassa ; C. Chiri ; L. Cifarelli ; F. Cindolo ; E. Coccia ; S. De Pasquale ; A. Di Giovanni
- 关键词：UHE cosmic rays ; EAS ; Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers
- 刊名：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：1 April 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：588
- 期：1-2
- 页码：211-214
- 全文大小：933 K
文摘
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.