High energy gamma ray astroparticle physics with milagro

Authors :: 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
J. A. Goodman
Source :: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 71:470-477
Publication Year :: 1999
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 1999.
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.

Subjects :: Astroparticle physics
Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
High energy
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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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
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