Abeysekara AU, Albert A, Alfaro R, Alvarez C, Álvarez JD, Araya M, Arteaga-Velázquez JC, Arunbabu KP, Rojas DA, Solares HA, Babu R, Barber AS, Becerril A, Belmont-Moreno E, BenZvi SY, Blanco O, Braun J, Brisbois C, Caballero-Mora KS, Martínez JI, Capistrán T, Carramiñana A, Casanova S, Castillo M, Chaparro-Amaro O, Cotti U, Cotzomi J, de León SC, de la Fuente E, de León C, De Young T, Hernandez RD, Dingus BL, DuVernois MA, Durocher M, Díaz-Vélez JC, Ellsworth RW, Engel K, Espinoza C, Fan KL, Fang K, Fick B, Fleischhack H, Flores JL, Fraija N, García-González JA, Garcia-Torales G, Garfias F, Giacinti G, Goksu H, González MM, González-Muñoz A, Goodman JA, Harding JP, Hernandez E, Hernandez S, Hinton J, Hona B, Huang D, Hueyotl-Zahuantitla F, Hui CM, Humensky TB, Hüntemeyer P, Iriarte A, Imran A, Jardin-Blicq A, Joshi V, Kaufmann S, Kieda D, Kunde GJ, Lara A, Lauer R, Lee WH, Lennarz D, Vargas HL, Linnemann JT, Longinotti AL, Luis-Raya G, Lundeen J, Malone K, Marandon V, Marinelli A, Martinez O, Martínez-Castellanos I, Martínez-Castro J, Martínez-Huerta H, Matthews JA, Miranda-Romagnoli P, Montaruli T, Morales-Soto JA, Moreno E, Mostafá M, Nayerhoda A, Nellen L, Newbold M, Nisa MU, Noriega-Papaqui R, Oceguera-Becerra T, Olivera-Nieto L, Omodei N, Peisker A, Araujo YP, Pérez-Pérez EG, Ponce E, Pretz J, Rho CD, Rosa-González D, Ruiz-Velasco E, Salazar H, Salazar-Gallegos D, Greus FS, Sandoval A, Schneider M, Schoorlemmer H, Serna-Franco J, Sinnis G, Smith AJ, Son Y, Woodle KS, Springer RW, Taboada I, Tepe A, Tibolla O, Tollefson K, Torres I, Torres-Escobedo R, Turner R, Ureña-Mena F, Ukwatta TN, Varela E, Vargas-Magaña M, Villaseñor L, Wang X, Watson IJ, Werner F, Westerhoff S, Willox E, Wisher I, Wood J, Yodh GB, Zaborov D, Zepeda A, Zhou H (2023)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2023
Book Volume: 1052
Article Number: 168253
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2023.168253
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analysis techniques build on experience of the Milagro experiment in using ground-based water Cherenkov detectors for gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located on the Sierra Negra volcano in México at an elevation of 4100 meters above sea level. The completed HAWC observatory principal detector (HAWC) consists of 300 closely spaced water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultiplier tubes to provide timing and charge information to reconstruct the extensive air shower energy and arrival direction. The HAWC observatory has been optimized to observe transient and steady emission from sources of gamma rays within an energy range from several hundred GeV to several hundred TeV. However, most of the air showers detected are initiated by cosmic rays, allowing studies of cosmic rays also to be performed. This paper describes the characteristics of the HAWC main array and its hardware.
APA:
Abeysekara, A.U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J.D., Araya, M.,... Zhou, H. (2023). The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in México: The primary detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168253
MLA:
Abeysekara, A. U., et al. "The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in México: The primary detector." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1052 (2023).
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