1. “NIM” Paper
Cy Hoffman

2. Focus on analysis methods and what has changed since Grito.
This is paper is a vehicle to making analysis papers go out faster.
If what we publish in this paper is not what we do in our analysis, then the this paper will not be as useful.
Elements may be published elsewhere which will reduce the length, publication time.

3. Outline
Introduction: (bla bla bla novel new detector bla bla bla)
Detector Description: (Heavily reference Grito and stress differences, improvements)
Reservoir -GS (not much needed)
Liner/Cover -GS (not much needed)
Inflation/Installation -MS/DC(?) (new to Milagro)
PMTs/Baffles - DW (Baffles new and important)
Outrigger Array -TS(?)/GBY (lots of stuff here. ORs new to Milagro)
Water System MS
DAQ/Trigger BD
Repairs and Maintenance -BD
Plots:
OR diagram
OR layout

4. Outline (cont.) Plots Historic on-time
Operation of Milagro:
Calibration AJS,BD,NYU
Pedestal shift -CL
Alignment - Zenith Align, Pointing Accuracy, Precision AJS
Online Reconstruction -AJS
Data handling -AJS
Online analysis -AJS
GCN ??
Plots
Historic on-time
Calibration Diagram (In print? ICRC?)

5. Outline (cont.) Detector Simulation
Corsika -VV
GEANT -VV
PMT -VV
Water Tests -MS
Detailed explanation of g4sim will be relegated to a separate paper.

6. Outline (cont.) Event Reconstruction Plots: Core Fitting -AJS??
Angle Fitting -AJS??
Curvature
Sampling
Gamma/Hadron Separation: -AA
Compactness A4
Plots:
DelEO (???)
Gamma/Hadron variables for MC gammas, MC hadrons, data

7. Outline (cont.) Background Estimation -GW
Direct Integration
ROI exclusion
Anisotropy (Mention this. It is important to the limit)
Ref. paper by RF/LF and Cygnus (expt. not region)
Plots:
Allsky signif. distribution

8. Outline (cont.) Significance Computation -JL/AJS Plots:
Event Weighting (gamma/hadron weighting)
PSF Weighting
Plots:
Sensitivity improvement for various spectra for given assumed spectra.
(This could be separate paper, in which case this lengthy section could be replaced by a shorter section with a reference to the paper.)

9. Outline (cont.) Energy Spectrum Estimation BA/GBY Energy estimators
Fit method
Precision
(Reference separate spectral analysis paper)
(Does the moon belong here as a verification of the energy scale?)
Plot showing dE vs E.

10. Outline (cont.)
The Crab Nebula - A Demonstration of Milagro’s sensitivity
Verification of gamma/hadron variables
Verification of point spread function
Measurement of flux and spectrum
Plots:
“sigma” map
PSF plot
Gamma/hadron comparison
Spectrum

11. What’s Missing?
GRB Analysis
Extended source sensitivity
????