Status of the project E xtreme E nergy E vents area of Bari

1. Status of the project Extreme Energy Eventsarea of Bari Prof. F. Romano - Politecnico di Bari & INFN Bari Dott. M. Abbrescia – Ricercatore Università di Bari Dott.ssa A. Regano - Centro Fermi Seconda Conferenza dei Progetti del CENTRO FERMI, Roma 19-20 Aprile 2012

2. Extreme Energy Events-La scienza nelle scuole

3. Stations coordinated by Bari INFN section Bari Altamura Trinitapoli LC "Cagnazzi" Altamura IISS “Staffa” – Trinitapoli [II fase] LS "Scacchi" Bari [II fase] Average distance: 65 km

4. The telescope is in acquisition! Construction MRPC 2006 Installing telescope: May 2008 Acquired first event: 30 May 2008 • Activity • Shifts control of the students and Logbook • Remote control and monitoring • Weather station • Lessons on cosmic rays • EEE Conference on the activity: 26 May 2011 • Data acquired • 130 days in 2010 • 155 days in 2011 • 100 days up to April 2012 Altamura

5. The telescope is in acquisition! Construction MRPC May 2009 Installing telescope: 2011 Acquired first event: 5 November 2011 • Activity • Logbook • Remote control and monitoring • Weather station • Lessons on cosmic rays • Magazine Ipogei06 Trinitapoli

6. The telescope is in acquisition! Construction MRPC June 2009 Installing telescope: 2011 Acquired first event: 1 March 2012 • Activity • Logbook • Remote control and monitoring  • Lessons on cosmic rays Bari

7. Monitor and control • HV-LV system • DAQ & online analysis • Room control • Data transfer All remotely controlled or almost!

8. Specifications of telescopes • LV system classic • trigger electronic card: model Catania-CERN • GPS electronic card: Hytec • MRPC planedistance: 60cm • Average rate: 38Hz Trinitapoli Bari Altamura • LV system: model Lecce • trigger electronic card: model Catania-CERN • GPS electronic card: Hytec • MRPC planedistance: 59cm • Average rate: 20Hz • LV system: model Lecce • trigger electronic card: model Bologna • GPS electronic card: missing • MRPC plane distance: 67cm • Average rate: 12Hz

9. Valentine’s Day Solar Flare Flare recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on the night between 14th and 15th February 2011.  It is a solar flare, of category X2, followed by an important Coronary Mass Emission (CME) This kind of flares are constantly monitored since they can have relevant consequences on Earth

10. Counts of cosmic rays - Altamura telescope Decrease Forbush The Valentine’s Day solar flare as observed by the EEE Altamura telescope

11. March 2012 Sun activity

12. Forbush March 2012 Preliminary! Second solar flare observed by the EEE Altamura telescope

13. Weather – Altamura March 2012

14. Program for the future Study efficiency of the detectors as a function of temperature and pressure Determining a correction coefficient

15. It is a known effect on the RPC detector... Pressure Temperature

16. In practice During the data acquisition the efficiency of the stations EEE  varies Vary the frequency of counts μ The objective is to study how the efficiency varies  by comparing it with a small telescope scintillators

17. Conclusions • The EEE experiment in the area of Bari: • 3 active telescopes EEE • The Altamura telescope acquire data almost continuosly from 3 years • First school to observe two Forbush decrease • In the near future, with 3 telescopes, we want … • … to study detector performance under varying weather conditions • … look for coincidences in the middle distance • … continue the observation of cosmics phenomena • EEE produces physics and …

18. … the students' enthusiasm