English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

HAWC Upgrade for Multi-TeV gamma-ray Detection

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons185147

Jardin-Blicq,  Armelle
Division Prof. Dr. James A. Hinton, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons182534

Joshi,  Vikas
Division Prof. Dr. James A. Hinton, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Jardin-Blicq, A., & Joshi, V. (2017). HAWC Upgrade for Multi-TeV gamma-ray Detection. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1792: 070010. doi:10.1063/1.4969007.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-B2FD-A
Abstract
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) high-energy gamma-ray observatory was completed in march 2015 in central Mexico. The detector, consisting of 300 water tanks, is currently being upgraded to improve its performance at Multi-TeV energies, with a sparse array of small water Cherenkov tanks. It will extend the instrumental area by a factor of 4, and enhance the sensitivity at the highest energies. In this contribution, the current status of the observatory is presented, as well as the coming upgrade. The electronics and the readout system for the new sparse array of small water tanks are also desrcibed, and results from simulations performed to optimize the performance of the array are discussed.