The ARGO-YBJ detector and high energy GRBs

Bacci, C.; Bao, K. Z.; Barone, F.; Bartoli, B.; Bastieri, D.; Bernardini, P.; Buonomo, R.; Bussino, S.; Calloni, E.; Cao, B. Y.; Cardarelli, R.; Catalanotti, S.; Cavaliere, A.; Cesaroni, F.; Creti, P.; Danzengluobu,; Piazzoli, B. D.; Vincenzi, M. D.; Girolamo, T. D.; Sciascio, G. D.; Feng, Z. Y.; Fu, Y.; Gao, X. Y.; Geng, Q. X.; Guo, H. W.; H. H., He; He, M.; Huang, Q.; Iacovacci, M.; Iucci, N.; Jai, H. Y.; Kong, F. M.; Kuang, H. H.; Labaciren,; Li, B.; J. Y., Li; Liu, Z. Q.; Lu, H.; X. H., Ma; Mancarella, Giovanni; Mari, S. M.; Marsella, Giovanni; Martello, Daniele; Mei, D. M.; Meng, X. R.; Milano, L.; Morselli, A.; Mu, J.; Oliviero, M.; Padovani, P.; Panareo, Marco; Parisi, M.; Pellizzoni, G.; Peng, Z. R.; Pistilli, P.; Santonico, R.; Sartori, G.; Sbarra, C.; Severino, G.; Shen, P. R.; Sparvoli, R.; Stanescu, C.; Su, J.; Sun, L. R.; Sun, S. C.; Surdo, A.; Tan, Y. H.; Vernetto, S.; Vietri, M.; Wang, C. R.; Wang, H.; Wang, H. Y.; Wei, Y. N.; Yang, H. T.; Yao, Q. K.; G. C., Yu; Yue, X. D.; Yuan, A. F.; Zhang, H. M.; Zhang, J. L.; Zhang, N. J.; Zhang, T. J.; Zhang, X. Y.; Zhaxisangzhu, Zhaxiciren; Zhu, Q. Q.

ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation with Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) is a detector optimized to study small size air showers. It consists of a layer of Resistive Plate Counters (RPCs) covering an area of similar to 6500 m(2) and will be located in the Yangbajing Laboratory (Tibet, China) at 4300 m a.s.l. ARGO-YBJ will be devoted to a wide range of fundamental issues in cosmic rays and astroparticle physics, including in particular gamma-ray astronomy and gamma-ray bursts physics in the range 10 GeV divided by 500 TeV. The sensitivity of ARGO-YBJ to detect high energy GRBs is presented.