https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920814001
Highlights from HAWC
Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, México D.F. 01000, México
* e-mail: hleonvar@fisica.unam.mx
Published online: 10 May 2019
The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) observatory, located on the slopes of the Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico, was designed with the goal of detecting gamma-rays in the Teraelectron- volt energy range. However, most of the air showers that are detected with the observatory, with a rate of ≈ 27 kHz, are of hadronic origin. This makes that, after three years of operations, HAWC has accumulated a very large data set that allows to perform cosmic-ray analysis of high precision. The details of the observatory operation, as well as a selection of recent results in cosmic-ray physics are discussed in this work.
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