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- Etienne Bourbeau
- Wenlei Chen
- Alisha Chromey
- Carolyn Kierans
- Jason Watson
- Amanpreet Kaur
- Eman Moneer
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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Kelly MaloneToggle Cloak Cloak The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, located at an altitude of 4100 m on the Sierra Negra plateau in Mexico, is a second-generation experiment designed to observe TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays from air showers. It consists of a large array of water Cherenkov detectors, each of which is equipped with 4 PMTs. HAWC’s large field of view (~2 sr) and high duty cycle (>90%) make it well suited to constrain the cutoff and shape of high-energy GRB spectra. It also extends the spectral measurements with made with the Fermi-LAT up to 100 GeV to higher energies. I will discuss the status of HAWC’s GRB searches.
Muon Production Depth Studies - Hershal PandyaToggle Cloak Cloak The IceCube neutrino observatory also serves as a laboratory to study nuclear and electromagnetic cosmic particles. Primaries are observed as air showers in IceTop – the surface component of IceCube. By correlating arrival time of muons with distance from the shower core, the longitudinal history of the muon production may be resolved. We explore the usefulness of muon production depth distribution in resolving the mass of primary, and the dependence of this distribution on factors such as zenith, primary energy and sampling radial distance from shower core. We use the EHISTORY option in air shower simulation code CORSIKA to obtain true muon production depth distribution and use it as a benchmark to determine the corrections necessary in observed muon arrival time.
Photospheric Emission from GRBs - Zeynep AcunerToggle Cloak Cloak Abstract - Rosa Becerra Godínez
- Clio Sleator
- Carolyn Kierans
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Really useful usage notes page for likelihood tools! [Likelihood Usage Notes]
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