Recent results from Milagro and prospects for HAWC

John Pretz; Stefan Westerhoff

Recent results from Milagro and prospects for HAWC

John Pretz
, Stefan Westerhoff

Physics

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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 150x150 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.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	120
State	Published - 2010
Event	35th International Conference of High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2010 - Paris, France Duration: Jul 22 2010 → Jul 28 2010

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