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most citedSensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays

214 citations · 736 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2024

Neutrino astronomy at Lake Baikal

Dmitry Zaborov

High energy neutrino astronomy has seen significant progress in the past few years. This includes the detection of neutrino flux from the Galactic plane, as well as strong evidence…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 65 cited

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in México: The Primary Detector

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +140

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analy…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 27 cited

Data Acquisition Architecture and Online Processing System for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +105

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array devised for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located at an altitude of 4100 m a.s.l. in Sierra Negra, Me…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 36 cited

Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Point-like Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane with a Partial Configuration of the HAWC Observatory

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +95

A survey of the inner Galaxy region of Galactic longitude l in [+15, +50] degree and latitude b in [-4,+4] degree is performed using one-third of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 41 cited

Search for gamma-rays from the unusually bright GRB 130427A with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

The HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +90

The first limits on the prompt emission from the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A in the energy band are reported. GRB 130427A was the most powerful b…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 16 cited

VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +133

VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 77 cited

Observation of Small-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Direction Distribution of TeV Cosmic Rays with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +96

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays and charged cosmic rays at TeV energies. The detector is still under construction, but data acquisit…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 46 cited

Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

A. A. Abdo, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +118

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 53 cited

The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +101

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degre…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 16 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 6 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studi…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 4 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 5 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 214 cited

Sensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1 cited

The HAWC observatory as a GRB detector

D. Zaborov

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. HAWC will consist of 300 large water ta…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 129 cited

On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts

HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, J. A. Aguilar +145

We present the sensitivity of HAWC to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). HAWC is a very high-energy gamma-ray observatory currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. It…

hep-ex2002

Simulation of a KM3-scale deep-sea neutrino detector

D. Zaborov

This document describes a Monte-Carlo simulation of an underwater neutrino telescope with a homogeneous detection volume of a cubic kilometre.