The Milagro Photo Gallery
Some pictures of the Milagro detector
and its construction.
The first picture is of the inside of the Milagro pond after about
half of the PMTs where installed and we had just begun filling the pond
with water. The reflective collars around each PMT (known as baffles)
are used to block light that is traveling horizontally across the pond
and to increase the collection efficiency for photons that are traveling
downwards.
The next shot is a close-up of several PMTs in the corner of the grid,
just after they were installed. The baffles have not yet been installed
on the PMTs.
A visualization of an actual event as seen by Milagro. The green boxes
in the pond represent the amount of light received by each PMT. The
white dots hovering above the pond are the individual PMT arrival times
fit to a plane. This plane is a measurement of the front edge of the
pancake of relativistic particles discussed on the pages describing
the detection of cosmic rays.
A side view of another event.
Diver working on the repair of a PMT.
Finally, 2 aerial pictures of Milagro and its environs.
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