Abstract
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is under construction at Sierra Negra, Mexico and will have unprecedented sensitivity to gamma ray sources between 50 GeV and 100 TeV across the entire sky. The low energy sensitivity is limited by the triggering condition for the instrument which nominally requires about 70 PMTs to observe light in 2 microseconds. I will discuss a potential design to the data acquisition which will allow readout of much smaller events enhancing the low energy response of the detector and increasing the experiment's capability to observe sources below 50 GeV.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2011 |
| Publisher | Institute of High Energy Physics |
| Pages | 219-222 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Event | 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2011 - Beijing, China Duration: Aug 11 2011 → Aug 18 2011 |
Other
| Other | 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Beijing |
| Period | 8/11/11 → 8/18/11 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics