11-13 May 2021
Mexico/General timezone
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Astroparticle physics and Cosmology

The All-particle cosmic-ray energy spectrum measured with HAWC

Speakers

  • Mr. Jorge Antonio MORALES SOTO

Primary authors

Content

In the past, due to the technological limitations of direct and indirect cosmic ray detectors, the observations made on the energy interval from 10 TeV to 1 PeV of the all-particle cosmic-ray energy spectrum have poor statistics and are dominated by large systematics errors. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, is a new generation air shower detector built with the aim of monitoring the sky in search for gamma rays (E = 100 GeV - 100 TeV) and cosmic rays (from 100 GeV up to 1 PeV). The detector consists of an array of 300 water Cherenkov detectors that covers 62% of a flat surface of 22,000 $m^2$, is instrumented with 1,200 photomultipliers (PMTs) in close-packed water Cherenkov tanks containing a total of 60 ML of water, and it is located at 4100 m a.s.l. at the Pico de Orizaba Volcano in Puebla, Mexico. Due to its design and its high altitude, HAWC can provide high statistic measurements of the all-particle energy spectrum of TeV cosmic rays. In this work, we show preliminary results on the total spectrum of cosmic rays between 10 TeV and 1 PeV obtained from two years of HAWC's data using an analysis based on a Bayesian unfolding technique.

Contribution type

Oral