EEE - Extreme Energy Events: an astroparticle physics experiment in Italian High Schools

14th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics

物理学;天文学

Abbrescia, M.^1,2 ; Avanzini, C.^1,3 ; Baldini, L.^1,3 ; Baldini Ferroli, R.^1,4 ; Batignani, G.^1,3 ; Bencivenni, G.^4 ; Bossini, E.^1,5 ; Bressan, E.^1,6 ; Chiavassa, A.^1,6 ; Cicalò, C.^1,8 ; Cifarelli, L.^1,6 ; Coccia, E.^9 ; Corvaglia, A.^1,10 ; De Gruttola, D.^1,11 ; De Pasquale, S.^1,11 ; Di Giovanni, A.^12 ; D'Incecco, M.^12 ; Dreucci, M.^4 ; Fabbri, F.L.^4 ; Fattibene, E.^4 ; Ferrarov, A.^4 ; Forster, R.^14,15 ; Frolov, V.^16 ; Galeotti, P.^1,17 ; Garbini, M.^1,6 ; Gemme, G.^17 ; Gnesi, I.^1,7 ; Grazzi, S.^1,17 ; Gustavino, C.^12 ; Hatzifotiadou, D.^1,6,15 ; La Rocca, P.^1,18 ; Maggiora, A.^7 ; Maron, G.^13 ; Mazziotta, M.N.^19 ; Miozzi, S.^1,4,9 ; Noferini, F.^1,13 ; Nozzoli, F.^20 ; Panareo, M.^1,10 ; Panetta, M.P.^1,10 ; Paoletti, R.^1,5 ; Perasso, L.^1,17 ; Pilo, F.^1,3 ; Piragino, G.^1,7 ; Riggi, F.^1,18 ; Righini, G.C.^1 ; Rodriguez Rodriguez, A.^14,15 ; Sartorelli, G.^1,6 ; Scapparone, E.^6 ; Schioppa, M.^1,21 ; Scribano, A.^1,3 ; Selvi, M.^6 ; Serci, S.^7 ; Siddi, E.^8 ; Squarcia, S.^17 ; Taiuti, M.^17 ; Terreni, G.^3 ; Vistoli, M.C.^13 ; Votano, L.^12 ; Williams, M.C.S.^6,15 ; Zani, S.^13 ; Zichichi, A.^1,6,15 ; Zuyeuski, R.^1,15

Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy^1

INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy^2

INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy^3

INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (RM), Italy^4

INFN Gruppo Collegato di Siena, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy^5

INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy^6

INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy^7

INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy^8

INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

(10) INFN, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Del Salento, Lecce, Italy

(11) INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy

(12) INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ), Italy

(13) INFN CNAF, Bologna, Italy

(14) ICSC World Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland

(15) CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

(16) JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Reserch, Dubna, Russia

(17) INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

(18) INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

(19) INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy

(20) INFN, ASI Science Data Center, Rome, Italy

(21) INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy^9

关键词: Advanced researches;    Astroparticle physics;    Common datum;    Extensive air showers;    High school teachers;    Scientific culture;    Scientific institutions;    Time resolution;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/718/8/082001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/718/8/082001

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Extreme Energy Events project (EEE) is aimed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) from primary cosmic rays of more than 1018eV energy detecting the ground secondary muon component using an array of telescopes with high spatial and time resolution. The second goal of the EEE project is to involve High School teachers and students in this advanced research work and to initiate them in scientific culture: to reach both purposes the telescopes are located inside High School buildings and the detector construction, assembling and monitoring - together with data taking and analysis - are done by researchers from scientific institutions in close collaboration with them. At present there are 42 telescopes in just as many High Schools scattered all over Italy, islands included, plus two at CERN and three in INFN units. We report here some preliminary physics results from the first two common data taking periods together with the outreach impact of the project.