My Research
My research area was high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The experiment that I worked on was called Milagrito, which was a prototype for a larger detector named Milagro. Milagro is a giant 6 million gallon man-made pond about the size of a football field. It is instrumented with 723 sensitive light detectors called photomultiplier tubes that can detect single photons of light. Milagro detects the Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles (and photons) that result when a high-energy gamma ray or cosmic ray interacts in the earth's upper atmosphere.

I may write more about my research and about high-energy gamma-ray astronomy if I get the time. For now, you can check out the following link that has information and pictures about Milagrito/Milagro.

If you are really interested (or just tired and can't get to sleep), you can read my dissertation by following the link velow. My thesis topic was using Milagrito to search the northen sky for gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy transient phenomena. The first four chapters contain general information on high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts, extensive air showers, and Milagrito.
My Dissertation:
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