Milagro: A low energy threshold extensive air shower array

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Sep 1992

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Towards a Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Detector for TeV Astro/particle Physics. Proceedings of the first Palaiseau Workshop, held

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Cerenkov Counters, Gamma Rays, Photomultiplier Tubes, Radiation Counters, Crab Nebula, Nuclear Reactions, Resolution

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Milagro is a proposed extensive air shower (EAS) array with a large water Cerenkov detector at its center. It will have a low energy threshold, approximately 500 GeV, and good angular resolution, approximately 0.4 degrees. With the large aperture and duty factor of an EAS array, and the energy threshold of an atmospheric Cerenkov telescope, it will be ideally poised to discover new, steady sources of very high energy gamma radiation similar to the Crab nebula, and transient phenomena analogous to the gamma ray bursts seen at lower energies. Here we describe the Milagro detector and give results of tests performed at the CYGNUS array that demonstrate the capabilities of the water Cerenkov technique in detecting and reconstructing extensive air showers.

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