Cygnus experiment at Los Alamos

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.36073· OSTI ID:5455978

Dingus, B L; Goodman, J A; Gupta, S K; Talaga, R L; Chang, C Y; Yodh, G B; Bolton, R D; Burman, R L; Butterfield, K B; Cady, R

The Cygnus experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been designed to study, with high angular accuracy, point sources of gamma rays of energy above 10/sup 14/ eV. The experimental detector consists of an air shower array to observe gamma-ray showers and a shielded, large-area track detector to study the muon content of the showers. In this paper we present preliminary data from the array and describe its performance. 9 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA (USA); New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque (USA); California Univ., Irvine (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5455978
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-86-2590; CONF-8606182-1; ON: DE86013825
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 150; Conference: 5. international school of cosmic ray astrophysics, Erice, Italy, 1 Jun 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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