Cygnus experiment at Los Alamos

Conference · Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 1986 · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5931568

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

The Cygnus experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been designed to study, with high angular accuracy, point sources of gamma rays 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.

• Research Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
• OSTI ID: 5931568
• Report Number(s): CONF-860575-
• Journal Information: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 150:1; Conference: 2. conference on particle and nuclear physics, Lake Louise, Canada, 26 May 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
GAMMA DETECTION
BACKGROUND RADIATION
DATA ANALYSIS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
MUONS
PEV RANGE
COSMIC RAY SOURCES
DETECTION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
FERMIONS
LEPTONS
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATIONS
640101* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Cosmic Radiation