Highlights from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Understand

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.