Expanding the HAWC Observatory

Technical Report · Wed Aug 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1304793· OSTI ID:1304793

Mori, Johanna ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory is expanding its current array of 300 water tanks to include 350 outrigger tanks to increase sensitivity to gamma rays above 10 TeV. This involves creating and testing hardware with which to build the new tanks, including photomultiplier tubes, high voltage supply units, and flash analog to digital converters. My responsibilities this summer included preparing, testing and calibrating that equipment.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Science Undergraduate Lab. Internships (SULI) Program
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1304793
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-26382; TRN: US1601796
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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