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A Visit to Ghost Ranch Jim Linnemann Michigan State University Los Alamos National Laboratory June 18, 2003 The Milagro All-Sky TeV Gamma-Ray Telescope What are Cosmic Rays? Fast moving particles from— the cosmos: of no earthly origin ` But then, the same is true of starlight Most are electrically charged How do you see them? (Experimental Physics) Finding a way to detect things “extrasensory” perception Real phenomena, right under our noses The lure of secret knowledge still attracts… Milagro Detector The Crab Nebula * Look for high energy photons “particles” of light Photons point back see where they came from Recent Results Crab nebula All-sky survey Galactic Plane GRB searches Moon Shadow: Energy Scale Calibration Proton Response E = 640±70 GeV (MC 690 GeV) sq = 0.9o The moon’s shadow is sharp: blurred only by earth’s magnetic field and detector’s resolution The Sun Produces some Cosmic Rays: A Solar Prominence Material Ejected from the Sun by Magnetic Fields The sun’s magnetic field deflects cosmic rays and blurs its image Can use to study the sun The Milky Way—seen in light 100 million times more energetic than light from the sun A satellite A Source of Gamma Rays: The Crab Nebula Supernova seen in 1054 AD Still shining: light particles with 1 trillion times more energy than sunlight photons A spinning neutron star with a strong magnetic field (pulsar) Accelerates electrons, which transfer much of their energy to photons Raw Data On: 16,987,703 Off: 16,981,520 Significance: 1.4 s Cut Data On: 1,952,917 Off: 1,945,109 Excess: 7,808 (~10/day) Significance: 5.4 s *