墨西哥的高海拔水切伦科夫（HAWC）天文台：主探测器
高能天体物理现象
2023-04-12 v2 天体物理仪器与方法
摘要
高海拔水切伦科夫（HAWC）天文台是第二代连续运行、宽视场、TeV 伽马射线天文台。HAWC 天文台及其分析技术建立在 Milagro 实验使用地基水切伦科夫探测器进行伽马射线天文观测的经验之上。HAWC 位于墨西哥 Sierra Negra 火山，海拔 4100 米。建成的 HAWC 天文台主探测器（HAWC）由 300 个紧密排布的水切伦科夫探测器组成，每个配备四个光电倍增管以提供时序与电荷信息，用于重建广延空气簇射能量与到达方向。HAWC 天文台经优化以观测能量范围从几百 GeV 到几百 TeV 的伽马射线源暂现与稳态发射。然而，探测到的大部分空气簇射由宇宙线引发，也使得宇宙线研究得以开展。本文描述 HAWC 主阵列及其硬件的特性。
引用
@article{arxiv.2304.00730,
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author = {A. U. Abeysekara and A. Albert and R. Alfaro and C. Álvarez and J. D. Álvarez and M. Araya and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and K. P. Arunbabu and D. Avila Rojas and H. A. Ayala Solares and R. Babu and A. S. Barber and A. Becerril and E. Belmont-Moreno and S. Y. BenZvi and O. Blanco and J. Braun and C. Brisbois and K. S. Caballero-Mora and J. I. Cabrera Martínez and T. Capistrán and A. Carramiñana and S. Casanova and M. Castillo and O. Chaparro-Amaro and U. Cotti and J. Cotzomi and S. Coutiño de León and E. de la Fuente and C. de León and T. De Young and R. Díaz Hernández and B. L. Dingus and M. A. DuVernois and M. Durocher and J. C. Díaz-Vélez and R. W. Ellsworth and K. Engel and C. Espinoza and K. L. Fan and K. Fang and U. B. Fick and H. Fleischhack and J. L. Flores and N. Fraija and J. A. García-González and G. García-Torales and F. Garfias and G. Giacinti and H. Goksu and M. M. González and A. González-Muñoz and J. A. Goodman and J. P. Harding and E. Hernández and S. Hernández and J. Hinton and B. Hona and D. Huang and F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla and C. M. Hui and T. B. Humensky and P. Hüntemeyer and A. Iriarte and A. Imran and A. Jardin-Blicq and V. Joshi and S. Kaufmann and D. Kieda and G. J. Kunde and A. Lara and R. Lauer and W. H. Lee and D. Lennarz and H. León Vargas and J. T. Linnemann and A. L. Longinotti and G. Luis-Raya and J. Lundeen and K. Malone and V. Marandon and A. Marinelli and O. Martínez and I. Martínez-Castellanos and J. Martínez-Castro and H. Martínez-Huerta and J. A. Matthews and P. Miranda-Romagnoli and T. Montaruli and J. A. Morales-Soto and E. Moreno and M. Mostafá and A. Nayerhoda and L. Nellen and M. Newbold and M. U. Nisa and R. Noriega-Papaqui and T. Oceguera-Becerra and L. Olivera-Nieto and N. Omodei and A. Peisker and Y. Pérez Araujo and E. G. Pérez-Pérez and E. Ponce and J. Pretz and C. D. Rho and D. Rosa-González and E. Ruiz-Velasco and H. Salazar and D. Salazar-Gallegos and F. Salesa Greus and A. Sandoval and M. Schneider and H. Schoorlemmer and J. Serna-Franco and G. Sinnis and A. J. Smith and Y. Son and K. Sparks Woodle and R. W. Springer and I. Taboada and A. Tepe and O. Tibolla and K. Tollefson and I. Torres and R. Torres-Escobedo and R. Turner and F. Ureña-Mena and T. N. Ukwatta and E. Varela and M. Vargas-Magaña and L. Villaseñor and X. Wang and I. J. Watson and F. Werner and S. Westerhoff and E. Willox and I. Wisher and J. Wood and G. B. Yodh and D. Zaborov and A. Zepeda and H. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00730},
year = {2023}
}
备注
Accepted for publications in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2023) 168253 ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900223002437 ); 39 pages, 14 Figures