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View article: Measurement campaigns of the cosmic ray flux at different latitudes within the Extreme Energy Events Project
Measurement campaigns of the cosmic ray flux at different latitudes within the Extreme Energy Events Project Open
Measurements of the cosmic ray flux at large latitudes, close to the Arctic Circle, were carried out in the last years by the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Collaboration on board of a small boat, sailing from 66° to 82° N. A compact, scintil…
View article: First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project
First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, a joint project of the Centro Fermi (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “E. Fermi”) and INFN, has a dual purpose: a scientific research program on cosmic rays at ground level and a…
View article: First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project
First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, a joint project of the Centro Fermi (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E.Fermi") and INFN, has a dual purpose: a scientific research program on cosmic rays at ground level and an…
View article: Ecological transition for the gas mixtures of the MRPC cosmic ray telescopes of the EEE Project
Ecological transition for the gas mixtures of the MRPC cosmic ray telescopes of the EEE Project Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Collaboration is fully involved in an ecological transition. The use of the standard gas mixture, C 2 H 2 F 4 + SF 6 , has stopped in favor of an alternative green mixture based on C 3 H 2 F 4 with the addit…
View article: Recent results from the PolarquEEEst measurement campaign at large geographical latitudes
Recent results from the PolarquEEEst measurement campaign at large geographical latitudes Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, mainly based on a network of cosmic ray telescopes, consisting of MRPC gaseous detectors built by high school students at CERN and taking data for more than 15 years, has recently employed additiona…
Measurement of the cosmic charged particle rate at sea level in the latitude range 35$$^{\circ }$$ $$\div $$ 82$$^{\circ }$$ N with the PolarquEEEst experiment Open
After its successful campaign of measurements beyond the Polar Arctic Circle, the PolarquEEEst experiment measured the cosmic charged particle rate at sea level in a latitude interval between 35 $$^{\circ }$$ N and 82 $$^{\circ }$$ N. In t…
View article: Simulation tool for MRPC telescopes of EEE experiment
Simulation tool for MRPC telescopes of EEE experiment Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment consists in a network of cosmic muon tracker telescopes, each made of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), able to precisely measure the absolute muon crossing time and the muon integr…
View article: Reduction of Greenhouse Gases impact in the EEE Project
Reduction of Greenhouse Gases impact in the EEE Project Open
The whole Extreme Energy Events (EEE) array is composed of 61 telescopes installed in Italian High Schools, built and operated by students and teachers, constantly supervised by researchers. The muon telescope of the EEE Project is made by…
View article: Transition to ecological gas mixture s in EEE MRPC based muon telescopes
Transition to ecological gas mixture s in EEE MRPC based muon telescopes Open
A muon telescope of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is made by 3 Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC). The MRPCs have been fluxed so far with a standard mixture composed by 98% C$_{2}$H$_{2}$F$_{4}$ and 2% SF$_{6}$ that are Gre…
View article: Search for Multi-Coincidence Cosmic Ray Events over Large Distances with the EEE MRPC Telescopes
Search for Multi-Coincidence Cosmic Ray Events over Large Distances with the EEE MRPC Telescopes Open
The existence of independent, yet time correlated, Extensive Air Showers (EAS) has been discussed over the past years, with emphasis on possible physical mechanisms that could justify their observation. The detector network of the Extreme …
View article: Underground muon flux measured by EEE students
Underground muon flux measured by EEE students Open
The Extreme Energy Events experiment (EEE) is a cosmic ray observatory made of about 60 muon telescopes based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) detectors. The EEE experiment has two main targets: a scientific and a dissemination. …
The Time of Physics Open
Space and time are fundamental concepts of the natural sciences. To simplify,we can say that until 1905 they were considered essentially as containers that house substances and bodies whose mutual interactions and movements constituted the…
View article: The Extreme-Energy Events Project: a bridge between school and professional research
The Extreme-Energy Events Project: a bridge between school and professional research Open
The Extreme-Energy Events (EEE) Experiment is a cosmic ray observatory based on a network of detecting stations distributed over the Italian territory and at CERN. A station of the network, called “telescope”, consists of three superimpose…
View article: Latest results from the PolarquEEEst missions
Latest results from the PolarquEEEst missions Open
The PolarquEEEst scientific programme consists in a series of measurements of the cosmic rayflux up to the highest latitudes, well beyond the Polar Article Circle. It started in Summer2018, when one telescope for cosmic rays was installed …
View article: Towards a full and realistic simulation framework for the Extreme Energy Events experiment
Towards a full and realistic simulation framework for the Extreme Energy Events experiment Open
The network of MRPC (Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers) telescopes of the Extreme Energy Events experiment (EEE) was designed to study very high energy cosmic rays through detection of secondary cosmic muons in the hadronic shower. To bet…
View article: Outreach and educational activities within the EEE cosmic ray network
Outreach and educational activities within the EEE cosmic ray network Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) network consists in a sparse array of telescopes based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers, installed in high school buildings all over the Italian territory and at CERN. Besides the many research activitie…
View article: Looking for long-range correlations among the EEE telescopes
Looking for long-range correlations among the EEE telescopes Open
The search for long-range correlations among air showers is one of the main goal of the Extreme\nEnergy Events (EEE) Project. The existence of such events has only been supposed theoretically\nthrough several physical mechanisms, the most …
View article: Characteristics and performance of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers of the EEE experiment
Characteristics and performance of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers of the EEE experiment Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment, dedicated to the study of\nsecondary cosmic rays, is arguably the largest detector system in the world\nimplemented by Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers. The EEE network consists of\n60 telescope…
View article: Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment
Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project employs Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) for studying the secondary cosmic ray muons in Extensive Air Showers. The array consists of about 60 tracking detectors, sparse on Italian territory…
View article: Quantum Backaction on Kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of Radiation Pressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector
Quantum Backaction on Kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of Radiation Pressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector Open
The quantum radiation pressure and the quantum shot noise in laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors constitute a macroscopic manifestation of the Heisenberg inequality. If quantum shot noise can be easily observed, the observat…
View article: Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment
Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project employs Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for studying the secondary cosmic ray muons in Extensive Air Showers. The array consists of about 60 tracking detectors, sparse on Italian territory a…
View article: Scientific and educational aspects of the EEE Project
Scientific and educational aspects of the EEE Project Open
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is an experiment aimed at the detection of secondary cosmic ray muons. It consists of a sparse array of about 60 telescopes, based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs), mostly distributed thr…
View article: Monitoring the long term stability of civil buildings through the MRPC telescopes of the EEE Project
Monitoring the long term stability of civil buildings through the MRPC telescopes of the EEE Project Open
Cosmic ray muons are a penetrating component of extensive air showers created in the Earth atmosphere by the interaction of highly energetic primary particles, mostly protons, which continuously bombard our Planet. The secondary cosmic rad…