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Cygnus Experiment at Los Alamos

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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 1014 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.

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    B. L. Dingus, J. A. Goodman, S. K. Gupta, R. L. Talaga, C. Y. Chang & G. B. Yodh

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    R. D. Bolton, R. L. Burman, K. B. Butterfield, R. Cady, R. D. Carlini, W. Johnson, D. E. Nagle, V. D. Sandberg & R. Williams

  3. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    R. W. Ellsworth

  4. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

    J. Linsley

  5. University of California, Irvine, CA, 92717, USA

    H. H. Chen & R. C. Allen

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

    Maurice M. Shapiro (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course) (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course)

  2. Laboratory for Cosmic-Ray Physics (emeritus), Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

    Maurice M. Shapiro (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course) (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course)

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    Maurice M. Shapiro (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course) (Director of the School, Co-Director of the Course)

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803-4001, USA

    John P. Wefel (Co-Director of the Course) (Co-Director of the Course)

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Dingus, B.L. et al. (1988). Cygnus Experiment at Los Alamos. In: Shapiro, M.M., Wefel, J.P. (eds) Genesis and Propagation of Cosmic Rays. NATO ASI Series, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4025-3_27

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