Segev BenZvi
(University of Rochester)
04/05/2015, 11:00
TeV Astrophysics at the HAWC Observatory, Segev BenZvi, U of Rochester
The field of TeV gamma-ray astrophysics is currently dominated by two types of air shower experiments: imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), which conduct very sensitive but low-uptime pencil-beam surveys of the gamma-ray sky; and surface arrays, which are moderately sensitive but carry out synoptic surveys with high uptime. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, or HAWC, is a...
