Solar Event Simulations using the HAWC Scaler System
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.
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@article{arxiv.1508.07285,
title = {Solar Event Simulations using the HAWC Scaler System},
author = {O. Enriquez-Rivera and A. Lara and R. Caballero-Lopez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07285},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. See arXiv:1508.03327 for all HAWC contributions