1. High energy gamma ray astroparticle physics with milagro
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T. N. Thompson, Michael Schneider, G. W. Sullivan, S. Delay, Kelin Wang, R. Fleyesher, Richard Miller, M. L. Chen, Peter Nemethy, Todd Haines, M. Cavalli-Sforza, I. Leonor, G. B. Yodh, D. G. Coyne, Benjamin C. Shen, C. M. Hoffman, B. C. Shen, D. Berley, S. Westerhoff, John R. Macri, C. Espinosa, M. Murray, S. Hugenberger, James M. Ryan, T. Yang, David A. Williams, C. Sinnis, D. E. Dorfan, Tumay O. Tumer, J. F. McCullough, Galen Gisler, Allen Mincer, L. Fleyesher, R. W. Ellsworth, L. A. Kelley, A. J. Smith, Mark L. McConnell, M. O. Wascko, A. Shoup, Brenda Dingus, and J. A. Goodman
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Astroparticle physics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,High energy ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Gamma ray ,Astrophysics ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Air shower ,Sky ,Physics::Space Physics ,Milagro ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Angular resolution ,media_common - Abstract
Milagro will be the first water-Cerenkov detector specifically built to study extensive air showers. It is being built in an existing man-made pond located near Los Alamos, NM. Milagro will be the only air shower detector to have an energy threshold as low as a few hundred GeV and an angular resolution as good as 0.3°. Milagro will observe the entire overhead sky at all times. We describe here the Milagro detector, it capabilities and its physics goals.
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- 1999
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