Milagrito, a TeV air-shower array
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Milagrito, a large, covered water-Cherenkov detector, was the world's "rst air-shower-particle detector sensitive to cosmic gamma rays below 1 TeV. It served as a prototype for the Milagro detector and operated from February 1997 to May 1998. This paper gives a description of Milagrito, a summary of the operating experience, and early results that demonstrate the capabilities of this technique. ( 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 95.55.Ka; 29.40.Ka; 95.85.Pw
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