Detection of thermal neutrons with the PRISMA-YBJ array in extensive air showers selected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment

We report on a measurement of thermal neutrons, generated by the hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS), by means of a small array of EN-detectors developed for the PRISMA project (PRImary Spectrum Measurement Array), novel devices based on a compound alloy of ZnS(Ag) and 6LiF. This array...

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Published in:	Astroparticle physics 2016-08, Vol.81, p.49-60
Main Authors:	Bartoli, B., Bernardini, P., Bi, X.J., Cao, Z., Catalanotti, S., Chen, S.Z., Chen, T.L., Cui, S.W., Dai, B.Z., D’Amone, A., Danzengluobu, De Mitri, I., D’Ettorre Piazzoli, B., Di Girolamo, T., Di Sciascio, G., Feng, C.F., Feng, Zhaoyang, Feng, Zhenyong, Gou, Q.B., Guo, Y.Q., He, H.H., Hu, Haibing, Hu, Hongbo, Iacovacci, M., Iuppa, R., Jia, H.Y., Labaciren, Li, H.J., Liu, C., Liu, J., Liu, M.Y., Lu, H., Ma, L.L., Ma, X.H., Mancarella, G., Mari, S.M., Marsella, G., Mastroianni, S., Montini, P., Ning, C.C., Perrone, L., Pistilli, P., Salvini, P., Santonico, R., Shen, P.R., Sheng, X.D., Shi, F., Surdo, A., Tan, Y.H., Vallania, P., Vernetto, S., Vigorito, C., Wang, H., Wu, C.Y., Wu, H.R., Xue, L., Yang, Q.Y., Yang, X.C., Yao, Z.G., Yuan, A.F., Zha, M., Zhang, H.M., Zhang, L., Zhang, X.Y., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhaxiciren, Zhaxisangzhu, Zhou, X.X., Zhu, F.R., Zhu, Q.Q., Stenkin, Yu.V., Alekseenko, V.V., Aynutdinov, V., Cai, Z.Y., Guo, X.W., Liu, Y., Rulev, V., Shchegolev, O.B., Stepanov, V., Volchenko, V., Zhang, H.
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Language:	English
Subjects:	Air showers Alloy development Arrays Correlation Cosmic ray Cosmic rays EN-detector Extensive air shower Hadronic component Hadrons RPC Thermal neutron Thermal neutrons Tibet
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