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1. Data Acquisition Architecture and Online Processing System for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

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HAWC collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Cruz, J., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Proper, M. Longo, Luna-García, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinni, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array devised for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located at an altitude of 4100 m a.s.l. in Sierra Negra, Mexico. HAWC consists of 300 Water Cherenkov Detectors, each instrumented with 4 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). HAWC re-uses the Front-End Boards from the Milagro experiment to receive the PMT signals. These boards are used in combination with Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) to record the time and the amount of light in each PMT hit (light flash). A set of VME TDC modules (128 channels each) is operated in a continuous (dead time free) mode. The TDCs are read out via the VME bus by Single-Board Computers (SBCs), which in turn are connected to a gigabit Ethernet network. The complete system produces ~ 500 MB/s of raw data. A high-throughput data processing system has been designed and built to enable real-time data analysis. The system relies on off-the-shelf hardware components, an open-source software technology for data transfers (ZeroMQ) and a custom software framework for data analysis (AERIE). Multiple trigger and reconstruction algorithms can be combined and run on blocks of data in a parallel fashion, producing a set of output data streams which can be analyzed in real time with minimal latency (< 5 s). This paper provides an overview of the hardware set-up and an in-depth description of the software design, covering both the TDC data acquisition system and the real-time data processing system. The performance of these systems is also discussed., Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A

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2017
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2. On the Pulse Shape of Ground Level Enhancements

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Strauss, R. D., Ogunjobi, O., Moraal, H., McCracken, K. G., and Caballero-Lopez, R. A.

Subjects
Physics - Space Physics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

We study the temporal intensity profile, or pulse shape, of cosmic ray ground level enhancements (GLEs) by calculating the rise $(\tau_\mathrm{r})$ and decay $(\tau_\mathrm{d})$ times for a small subset of all available events. Although these quantities show very large inter-event variability, a linear dependence of $\tau_\mathrm{d} \approx 3.5 \tau_\mathrm{r}$ is found. We interpret these observational findings in terms of an interplanetary transport model, thereby including the effects of scattering (in pitch-angle) as these particles propagate from (near) the Sun to Earth. It is shown that such a model can account for the observed trends in the pulse shape, illustrating that interplanetary transport must be taken into account when studying GLE events, especially their temporal profiles. Furthermore, depending on the model parameters, the pulse shape of GLEs may be determined entirely by interplanetary scattering, obscuring all information regarding the initial acceleration process, and hence making a classification between impulsive and gradual events, as is traditionally done, superfluous.

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2017
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3. The pulse shape of cosmic-ray ground-level enhancements

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Moraal, H., McCracken, K. G., and Caballero-Lopez, R. A.

Subjects
Physics - Space Physics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

Enhancements of the comic-ray intensity as observed by detectors on the ground have been observed 71 times since 1942. They are due to solar energetic particles accelerated in the regions of solar flares deep in the corona, or in the shock front of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar wind. The latter is the favoured model for the classical gradual ground-level enhancement (GLE). In several papers since the one of McCracken et al. (2008), we pointed out, however, that some GLEs are too impulsive to be accelerated in the CME shocks. With this hypothesis in mind we study the time profiles of all the available GLEs. The main results are that there is a continuous range from gradual to impulsive, that the fastest risers are concentrated at heliolongitudes that are magnetically well-connected to Earth, and that the shape of the pulse is a powerful indicator of propagation conditions between Sun and Earth. This ranges from relatively quiet to highly disturbed., Comment: Proc. 34rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2015

Published
2016

4. The cosmic-ray ground-level enhancements of 29 September 1989 and 20 January 2005

Author

Moraal, H., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., and McCracken, K. G.

Subjects
Physics - Space Physics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

Enhancements of the comic-ray intensity as observed by detectors on the ground have been observed 71 times since 1942. They are due to solar energetic particles accelerated in the regions of solar flares deep in the corona, or in the shock front of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar wind. The latter is the favoured model for the classical gradual ground level enhancement (GLE). In several papers since the one of McCracken et al. (2008), we pointed out, however, that some GLEs are too impulsive to be accelerated in the CME shocks. This hypothesis, together with other properties of GLEs, is demonstrated graphically in this paper by plotting and comparing the time profiles of GLEs 42 of 29 September 1989 and GLE 69 of 20 January. These two events are respectively the largest examples of gradual and prompt events., Comment: Proc. 34rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2015

Published
2016

5. Solar Event Simulations using the HAWC Scaler System

Author

Enriquez-Rivera, O., Lara, A., and Caballero-Lopez, R.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is an air shower array located near the volcano Sierra Negra in Mexico. The observatory has a scaler system sensitive to low energy cosmic rays (the geomagnetic cutoff for the site is 8 GV) suitable for conducting studies of solar or heliospheric transients such as Ground Level Enhancements (GLEs) and Forbush decreases. In this work we present the simulation of the HAWC response to these phenomena. We computed HAWC effective areas for different array configurations (different selection of photomultiplier tubes per detector) relevant for Forbush decreases and GLEs., Comment: Presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. See arXiv:1508.03327 for all HAWC contributions

Published
2015

6. VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

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Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Ángeles, F., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Avila-Aroche, A., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Badillo, C., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., Benítez, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bernal, A., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Cabrera, I., Carramiñana, A., Castañeda-Martínez, L., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Azuara, A., Diaz-Cruz, L., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Dultzin, D., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., García-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, A., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Guzmán-Cerón, C., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernández-Cervantes, L., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Langarica, R., Lara, A., Lara, G., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martínez, L. A., Martínez, H., Martínez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Martos, M., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Page, D. P., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Ramírez, I., Renter, A., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Sala, F., Ruiz-Velasco, E. L., Ryan, J., Sacahui, J. R., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Suarez, F., Taboada, I., Tepe, A., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Tinoco, S., Ukwatta, T. N., Galicia, J. F. Valdés, Vanegas, P., Vázquez, A., Villaseñor, L., Wall, W., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and data acquisition system of the HAWC observatory. HAWC is an air-shower array currently under construction at the same site of VAMOS with the purpose to study the TeV sky. The VAMOS setup included six water Cherenkov detectors and two different data acquisition systems. It was in operation between October 2011 and May 2012 with an average live time of 30%. Besides the scientific verification purposes, the eight months of data were used to obtain the results presented in this paper: the detector response to the Forbush decrease of March 2012, and the analysis of possible emission, at energies above 30 GeV, for long gamma-ray bursts GRB111016B and GRB120328B., Comment: Accepted for pubblication in Astroparticle Physics Journal (20 pages, 10 figures). Corresponding authors: A.Marinelli and D.Zaborov

Published
2014
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7. Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

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Abdo, A. A., Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Allen, B. T., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Aune, T., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hays, E., Hoffman, C. M., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kolterman, B. E., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., MacGibbon, J. H., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Mincer, A. I., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Morgan, T., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Nemethy, P., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Stump, D., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Vasileiou, V., Villaseñor, L., Walker, G. P., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Williams, D. A., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses down to the Planck scale. Hawking showed that due to quantum effects, a black hole has a temperature inversely proportional to its mass and will emit all species of fundamental particles thermally. PBHs with initial masses of ~5.0 x 10^14 g should be expiring in the present epoch with bursts of high-energy particles, including gamma radiation in the GeV - TeV energy range. The Milagro high energy observatory, which operated from 2000 to 2008, is sensitive to the high end of the PBH evaporation gamma-ray spectrum. Due to its large field-of-view, more than 90% duty cycle and sensitivity up to 100 TeV gamma rays, the Milagro observatory is well suited to perform a search for PBH bursts. Based on a search on the Milagro data, we report new PBH burst rate density upper limits over a range of PBH observation times. In addition, we report the sensitivity of the Milagro successor, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, to PBH evaporation events., Comment: Accepted to Astroparticle Physics Journal (25 Pages, 3 figures and 7 tables). Corresponding author: T. N. Ukwatta

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2014
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8. The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

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Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Alvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carraminana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De Leon, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., E., S. F., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hui, C. M., Huentemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. Leon, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Perez-Perez, E. G., Pretz, J., Riviere, C., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villasenor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., and Abazajian, K. N.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degrees North latitude and 4100 m above sea level, HAWC will observe gamma rays and cosmic rays with an array of water Cherenkov detectors. The full HAWC array is scheduled to be operational in Spring 2015. In this paper, we study the HAWC sensitivity to the gamma-ray signatures of high-mass (multi- TeV) dark matter annihilation. The HAWC observatory will be sensitive to diverse searches for dark matter annihilation, including annihilation from extended dark matter sources, the diffuse gamma-ray emission from dark matter annihilation, and gamma-ray emission from non-luminous dark matter subhalos. Here we consider the HAWC sensitivity to a subset of these sources, including dwarf galaxies, the M31 galaxy, the Virgo cluster, and the Galactic center. We simulate the HAWC response to gamma rays from these sources in several well-motivated dark matter annihilation channels. If no gamma-ray excess is observed, we show the limits HAWC can place on the dark matter cross-section from these sources. In particular, in the case of dark matter annihilation into gauge bosons, HAWC will be able to detect a narrow range of dark matter masses to cross-sections below thermal. HAWC should also be sensitive to non-thermal cross-sections for masses up to nearly 1000 TeV. The constraints placed by HAWC on the dark matter cross-section from known sources should be competitive with current limits in the mass range where HAWC has similar sensitivity. HAWC can additionally explore higher dark matter masses than are currently constrained., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, version to be published in PRD

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2014
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9. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

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HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of the moon; the observation of small-scale and large-scale angular clustering of the TeV cosmic rays; the prospects for measurement of transient solar events with HAWC; and the observation of Forbush decreases with the HAWC engineering array and HAWC-30., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2013

10. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

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HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studies of fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, and the large field of view of the detector will enable detailed studies of cosmologically significant backgrounds and magnetic fields. We describe the sensitivity of the full HAWC array to these phenomena in five contributions shown at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 2013)., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2013

11. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the detector, the characterization of the photomultipliers, and the timing calibration system. We also outline a next-generation detector based on the water Cherenkov technique., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2013

12. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its large field of view and high livetime, HAWC is well-suited to measure gamma rays from extended sources, diffuse emission, and transient sources. We describe the sensitivity of HAWC to emission from the extended Cygnus region as well as other types of galactic diffuse emission; searches for flares from gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei; and the first measurement of the Crab Nebula with HAWC-30., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2013

13. Sensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Velez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garcia-Luna, J. L., Garcia-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-García, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. The observatory will be used to measure high-energy protons and cosmic rays via detection of the energetic secondary particles reaching the ground when one of these particles interacts in the atmosphere above the detector. HAWC is under construction at a site 4100 meters above sea level on the northern slope of the volcano Sierra Negra, which is located in central Mexico at 19 degrees N latitude. It is scheduled for completion in 2014. In this paper we estimate the sensitivity of the HAWC instrument to point-like and extended sources of gamma rays. The source fluxes are modeled using both unbroken power laws and power laws with exponential cutoffs. HAWC, in one year, is sensitive to point sources with integral power-law spectra as low as 5x10^-13 cm^-2 sec^-1 above 2 TeV (approximately 50 mCrab) over 5 sr of the sky. This is a conservative estimate based on simple event parameters and is expected to improve as the data analysis techniques are refined. We discuss known TeV sources and the scientific contributions that HAWC can make to our understanding of particle acceleration in these sources.

Published
2013
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14. On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts

Author

HAWC collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Aguilar, J. A., Aguilar, S., Alfaro, R., Almaraz, E., Álvarez, C., Álvarez-Romero, J. de D., Álvarez, M., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Badillo, C., Barber, A., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benítez, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bernal, A., Bonamente, E., Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R., Cabrera, I., Carramiñana, A., Carrasco, L., Castillo, M., Chambers, L., Conde, R., Condreay, P., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., D'Olivo, J. C., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., Delay, S., Delepine, D., DeYoung, T., Diaz, L., Diaz-Cruz, L., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Edmunds, D., Ellsworth, R. W., Fick, B., Fiorino, D. W., Flandes, A., Fraija, N. I., Galindo, A., García-Luna, J. L., García-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Guzmán-Ceron, C., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harris, T., Hays, E., Hernandez-Cervantes, L., Hüntemeyer, P. H., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Jimenez, J. J., Karn, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kieda, D., Langarica, R., Lara, A., Lauer, R., Lee, W. H., Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-García, R., Martínez, H., Martínez, J., Martínez, L. A., Martínez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Martos, M., Matthews, J., McEnery, J. E., Medina-Tanco, G., Mendoza-Torres, J. E., Miranda-Romagnoli, P. A., Montaruli, T., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Napsuciale, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Tapia, A. Olmos, Orozco, V., Pérez, V., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Perkins, J. S., Pretz, J., Ramirez, C., Ramírez, I., Rebello, D., Rentería, A., Reyes, J., Rosa-González, D., Rosado, A., Ryan, J. M., Sacahui, J. R., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, W., Suárez, F., Suarez, N., Taboada, I., Tellez, A. F., Tenorio-Tagle, G., Tepe, A., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Valdes-Galicia, J., Vanegas, P., Vasileiou, V., Vázquez, O., Vázquez, X., Villaseñor, L., Wall, W., Walters, J. S., Warner, D., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Zaborov, D., and Zepeda, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We present the sensitivity of HAWC to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). HAWC is a very high-energy gamma-ray observatory currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. It will observe atmospheric air showers via the water Cherenkov method. HAWC will consist of 300 large water tanks instrumented with 4 photomultipliers each. HAWC has two data acquisition (DAQ) systems. The main DAQ system reads out coincident signals in the tanks and reconstructs the direction and energy of individual atmospheric showers. The scaler DAQ counts the hits in each photomultiplier tube (PMT) in the detector and searches for a statistical excess over the noise of all PMTs. We show that HAWC has a realistic opportunity to observe the high-energy power law components of GRBs that extend at least up to 30 GeV, as it has been observed by Fermi LAT. The two DAQ systems have an energy threshold that is low enough to observe events similar to GRB 090510 and GRB 090902b with the characteristics observed by Fermi LAT. HAWC will provide information about the high-energy spectra of GRBs which in turn could help to understanding about e-pair attenuation in GRB jets, extragalactic background light absorption, as well as establishing the highest energy to which GRBs accelerate particles.

Published
2011
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16. On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts

Author

Abeysekara, A.U., Aguilar, J.A., Aguilar, S., Alfaro, R., Almaraz, E., Álvarez, C., Álvarez-Romero, J. de D., Álvarez, M., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J.C., Badillo, C., Barber, A., Baughman, B.M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benítez, E., BenZvi, S.Y., Berley, D., Bernal, A., Bonamente, E., Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R., Cabrera, I., Carramiñana, A., Carrasco, L., Castillo, M., Chambers, L., Conde, R., Condreay, P., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., D’Olivo, J.C., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., Delay, S., Delepine, D., DeYoung, T., Diaz, L., Diaz-Cruz, L., Dingus, B.L., Duvernois, M.A., Edmunds, D., Ellsworth, R.W., Fick, B., Fiorino, D.W., Flandes, A., Fraija, N.I., Galindo, A., Garcı´a-Luna, J.L., Garcı´a-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, L.X., González, M.M., Goodman, J.A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Guzmán-Ceron, C., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harris, T., Hays, E., Hernandez-Cervantes, L., Hüntemeyer, P.H., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Jimenez, J.J., Karn, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kieda, D., Langarica, R., Lara, A., Lauer, R., Lee, W.H., Linares, E.C., Linnemann, J.T., Longo, M., Luna-García, R., Martı´nez, H., Martínez, J., Martı´nez, L.A., Martı´nez, O., Martı´nez-Castro, J., Martos, M., Matthews, J., McEnery, J.E., Medina-Tanco, G., Mendoza-Torres, J.E., Miranda-Romagnoli, P.A., Montaruli, T., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Napsuciale, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Olmos Tapia, A., Orozco, V., Pérez, V., Pérez-Pérez, E.G., Perkins, J.S., Pretz, J., Ramirez, C., Ramírez, I., Rebello, D., Rentería, A., Reyes, J., Rosa-González, D., Rosado, A., Ryan, J.M., Sacahui, J.R., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A.J., Sparks, K., Springer, W., Suárez, F., Suarez, N., Taboada, I., Tellez, A.F., Tenorio-Tagle, G., Tepe, A., Toale, P.A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T.N., Valdes-Galicia, J., Vanegas, P., Vasileiou, V., Vázquez, O., Vázquez, X., Villaseñor, L., Wall, W., Walters, J.S., Warner, D., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I.G., Wood, J., Yodh, G.B., Zaborov, D., and Zepeda, A.

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2012
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17. The mini-neutron monitor:a new approach in neutron monitor design

Author

Strauss, D. T. (Du Toit), Poluianov, S. (Stepan), van der Merwe, C. (Cobus), Krüger, H. (Hendrik), Diedericks, C. (Corrie), Krüger, H. (Helena), Usoskin, I. (Ilya), Heber, B. (Bernd), Nndanganeni, R. (Rendani), Blanco-Ávalos, J. (Juanjo), García-Tejedor, I. (Ignacio), Herbst, K. (Konstantin), Caballero-Lopez, R. (Rogelio), Moloto, K. (Katlego), Lara, A. (Alejandro), Walter, M. (Michael), Giday, N. M. (Nigussie Mezgebe), Traversi, R. (Rita), Strauss, D. T. (Du Toit), Poluianov, S. (Stepan), van der Merwe, C. (Cobus), Krüger, H. (Hendrik), Diedericks, C. (Corrie), Krüger, H. (Helena), Usoskin, I. (Ilya), Heber, B. (Bernd), Nndanganeni, R. (Rendani), Blanco-Ávalos, J. (Juanjo), García-Tejedor, I. (Ignacio), Herbst, K. (Konstantin), Caballero-Lopez, R. (Rogelio), Moloto, K. (Katlego), Lara, A. (Alejandro), Walter, M. (Michael), Giday, N. M. (Nigussie Mezgebe), and Traversi, R. (Rita)

Abstract

The near-Earth cosmic ray flux has been monitored for more than 70 years by a network of ground-based neutron monitors (NMs). With the ever-increasing importance of quantifying the radiation risk and effects of cosmic rays for, e.g., air and space-travel, it is essential to continue operating the existing NM stations, while expanding this crucial network. In this paper, we discuss a smaller and cost-effective version of the traditional NM, the mini-NM. These monitors can be deployed with ease, even to extremely remote locations, where they operate in a semi-autonomous fashion. We believe that the mini-NM, therefore, offers the opportunity to increase the sensitivity and expand the coverage of the existing NM network, making this network more suitable to near-real-time monitoring for space weather applications. In this paper, we present the technical details of the mini-NM’s design and operation, and present a summary of the initial tests and science results.

Published
2020

19. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its large field of view and high livetime, HAWC is well-suited to measure gamma rays from extended sources, diffuse emission, and transient sources. We describe the sensitivity of HAWC to emission from the extended Cygnus region as well as other types of galactic diffuse emission; searches for flares from gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei; and the first measurement of the Crab Nebula with HAWC-30., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2017

24. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

Author

Hawc, Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bonilla Rosales, M., Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., Eduardo de la Fuente, León, C., Deyoung, T., Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., León Vargas, H., Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of the moon; the observation of small-scale and large-scale angular clustering of the TeV cosmic rays; the prospects for measurement of transient solar events with HAWC; and the observation of Forbush decreases with the HAWC engineering array and HAWC-30., Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

Published
2013

25. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

Author

Hawc, Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bonilla Rosales, M., Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., Eduardo de la Fuente, León, C., Deyoung, T., Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., León Vargas, H., Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studies of fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, and the large field of view of the detector will enable detailed studies of cosmologically significant backgrounds and magnetic fields. We describe the sensitivity of the full HAWC array to these phenomena in five contributions shown at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 2013)., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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2013
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31. Cosmic ray energy changes at the termination shock and in the heliosheath

Author

Heerikhuisen, Jacob, Florinski, Vladimir, Zank, Gary P., Pogorelov, Nikolai V., Moraal, H., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., McCracken, K. G., McDonald, F. B., Mewaldt, R. A., Ptsukin, V., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Heerikhuisen, Jacob, Florinski, Vladimir, Zank, Gary P., Pogorelov, Nikolai V., Moraal, H., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., McCracken, K. G., McDonald, F. B., Mewaldt, R. A., Ptsukin, V., and Wiedenbeck, M. E.

Abstract

Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock of the solar wind in December 2004 at 94 AU and currently measures the cosmic ray intensity in the heliosheath. To better understand this modulation region beyond the shock, where adiabatic energy changes should be small, we review the net effect of energy changes during the modulation process, including adiabatic deceleration in the solar wind, acceleration at the termination shock, and the possibility that stochastic acceleration in the heliosheath may also make a contribution.

Published
2006

32. The effect of cosmic ray energy changes in the heliosphere on K-capture

Author

Acharya, B., Gupta, S., Jain, Atul, Karthikeyan, S., Morris, S., Tonwar, S., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Moraal, H., McDonald, F. B., Mewaldt, R. A., Acharya, B., Gupta, S., Jain, Atul, Karthikeyan, S., Morris, S., Tonwar, S., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Moraal, H., McDonald, F. B., and Mewaldt, R. A.

Abstract

In an accompanying paper we give a re-assessment of cosmic ray energy changes in the heliosphere to determine the effects of acceleration at the solar wind termination shock and modulation in the heliosheath beyond that. In this paper we show that these effects have important consequences for the interpretation of secondary to primary ratios of cosmic rays at energies below 1 GeV, i.e. in the region where they are strongly modulated

Published
2005

42. Spatial Intensity Profiles of Galactic Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere.

Author

Moraal, H., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., and McDonald, F. B.

Subjects
*COSMIC rays, *HELIOSPHERE, *PROTONS, *SOLAR wind, *NUCLEAR physics, *IONIZING radiation
Abstract

We study the spatial intensity profiles of galactic cosmic ray protons (H) and α-particles (He) during the solar minimum periods of 1987 (the so-called negative drift state) and 1977/1997 (both positive drift states) of the heliosphere. These intensities were measured with the Pioneer, Voyager and IMP spacecraft. The 1997 intensities were so low that one cannot readily explain them, even with the acceleration at the solar wind termination shock (SWTS) and modulation in the heliosheath included. Our heliospheric model is azimuthally symmetric with a spherical shock and heliopause, however, and we infer from its results that more realistic geometries may produce modulation effects that will explain the observations better. © 2004 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2004
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44. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., La Fuente, E., León, C., Deyoung, T., Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Lukas Nellen, Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

45. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

Author

Hawc, Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bonilla Rosales, M., Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., Eduardo de la Fuente, León, C., Deyoung, T., Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., León Vargas, H., Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the detector, the characterization of the photomultipliers, and the timing calibration system. We also outline a next-generation detector based on the water Cherenkov technique., Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

46. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., La Fuente, E., León, C., Tyce DeYoung, Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

47. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., La Fuente, E., León, C., Tyce DeYoung, Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

48. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., Benzvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., La Fuente, E., León, C., Deyoung, T., Diaz Hernandez, R., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Duvernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Lukas Nellen, Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

50. Sensitivity of HAWC to high-mass dark matter annihilations.

Author

Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Ayala Solares, H. A., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., and Castillo, M.

Subjects
*DETECTORS, *GAMMA rays, *DARK matter, *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics), *ASTRONOMY
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19° North latitude and 4100 m above sea level, HAWC will observe gamma rays and cosmic rays with an array of water Cherenkov detectors. The full HAWC array is scheduled to be operational in Spring 2015. In this paper, we study the HAWC sensitivity to the gamma-ray signatures of high-mass (multi-TeV) dark matter annihilation. The HAWC observatory will be sensitive to diverse searches for dark matter annihilation, including annihilation from extended dark matter sources, the diffuse gamma-ray emission from dark matter annihilation, and gamma-ray emission from nonluminous dark matter subhalos. Here we consider the HAWC sensitivity to a subset of these sources, including dwarf galaxies, the M31 galaxy, the Virgo cluster, and the Galactic center. We simulate the HAWC response to gamma rays from these sources in several well-motivated dark matter annihilation channels. If no gamma-ray excess is observed, we show the limits HAWC can place on the dark matter cross section from these sources. In particular, in the case of dark matter annihilation into gauge bosons, HAWC will be able to detect a narrow range of dark matter masses to cross sections below thermal. HAWC should also be sensitive to nonthermal cross sections for masses up to nearly 1000 TeV. The constraints placed by HAWC on the dark matter cross section from known sources should be competitive with current limits in the mass range where HAWC has similar sensitivity. HAWC can additionally explore higher dark matter masses than are currently constrained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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