ARGO

Home page of the experiment: http://www1.na.infn.it/wsubnucl/cosm/argo/argo.html

Main Scientific goals:

- g -astronomy,

> search and monitoring of the Northern sky sources (-10° £d£ 70°) at 100 GeV energy threshold with ~ 1/10 Crab flux sensitivity.

- diffuse g -rays,

> from the Galactic plane, SuperNova Remnants, molecular clouds at energies >=100 GeV (never observed so far).

- GRB physics,

> extending the satellite measurements over the full GeV/TeV range.

- anti-p/p ratio,

> at energies ~ 1 TeV with a sensitivity adequate to distinguish between models of local (galactic) anti-p production and models accounting for an extragalactic origin.

- Primary proton spectrum,

> in the 10 - 200 TeV energy range, with size reconstruction accuracy better than 10 % and sensitivity sufficient to detect a sharp change of the slope of the energy spectrum.

- Solar and Heliospheric physics,

> including cosmic ray modulation phenomena at an energy threshold of ~ 10 GeV, large scale structures of the interplanetary medium, high energy solar gamma-rays and neutrons.