Recent results from milagro and prospects for HAWC

Journal Article · Fri Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1050017

Pretz, John R ^[1]; Westerhoff, Stefan ^[2]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory
2. UNIV OF WISCONSON

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a new experiment for observing 50 GeV to 100 TeV photons from high energy gamma ray sources. The experiment is under construction at Sierra Negra, Mexico and will be comprised of 300 large water tanks instrumenting an area of 150 x 150 meters. HAWC is the next generation of the Milagro experiment which measured multi-TeV emission from the Galactic plane resolving sources and measuring diffuse emission. HAWC will feature approximately 15 times the sensitivity of the Milagro experiment and will be used to measure and constrain particle acceleration in the Galaxy.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1050017
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-11-00721; LA-UR-11-721; TRN: US1204523
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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