TY - JOUR
T1 - The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in México
T2 - The primary detector
AU - The historical and present HAWC Collaboration
AU - Abeysekara, A. U.
AU - Albert, A.
AU - Alfaro, R.
AU - Alvarez, C.
AU - Álvarez, J. D.
AU - Araya, M.
AU - Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C.
AU - Arunbabu, K. P.
AU - Rojas, D. Avila
AU - Solares, H. A.Ayala
AU - Babu, R.
AU - Barber, A. S.
AU - Becerril, A.
AU - Belmont-Moreno, E.
AU - BenZvi, S. Y.
AU - Blanco, O.
AU - Braun, J.
AU - Brisbois, C.
AU - Caballero-Mora, K. S.
AU - Martínez, J. I.Cabrera
AU - Capistrán, T.
AU - Carramiñana, A.
AU - Casanova, S.
AU - Castillo, M.
AU - Chaparro-Amaro, O.
AU - Cotti, U.
AU - Cotzomi, J.
AU - de León, S. Coutiño
AU - de la Fuente, E.
AU - de León, C.
AU - De Young, T.
AU - Hernandez, R. Diaz
AU - Dingus, B. L.
AU - DuVernois, M. A.
AU - Durocher, M.
AU - Díaz-Vélez, J. C.
AU - Ellsworth, R. W.
AU - Engel, K.
AU - Espinoza, C.
AU - Fan, K. L.
AU - Fang, K.
AU - Fick, B.
AU - Fleischhack, H.
AU - Flores, J. L.
AU - Fraija, N.
AU - García-González, J. A.
AU - Garcia-Torales, G.
AU - Garfias, F.
AU - Giacinti, G.
AU - Martínez-Castro, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Astrophysics
KW - High energy physics — experiment
KW - Nuclear experiment
KW - Physics — instrumentation and detectors
KW - Water Cherenkov Detectors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2023.168253
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2023.168253
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85151794224
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 1052
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
M1 - 168253
ER -