Category Archives: HAWC

Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez awarded the best PhD thesis from Centro Universitario de los Valles

At WIPAC, Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez leads the simulation production for IceCube, but he has also [...]

First measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum with HAWC

In a study published today in the journal Physical Review D, HAWC announces a measurement [...]

HAWC sheds new light on origin of mysterious antimatter excess

The HAWC Collaboration has made the first detailed measurements of two pulsars touted as possible [...]

HAWC reveals new look at the very high energy sky

Today, at the APS April Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, scientists operating the High-Altitude [...]

Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays

Image: HAWC Collaboration High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is [...]

HAWC Collaboration meeting in Puebla after the last summer of construction

An aerial view of the HAWC tanks on site. Summer 2014. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias. Puebla [...]

Small-scale cosmic-ray anisotropy with HAWC

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is designed to study the sky in TeV gamma [...]

UW-Madison hosts Fermi-VERITAS-HAWC workshop

Participating telescopes (from left to right) HAWC, Fermi, and VERITAS. Image: IceCube Collaboration The second [...]

WIPAC professor Stefan Westerhoff named 2013 APS fellow

Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle [...]

HAWC explores gamma-ray astronomy

The above image depicts HAWC as it will appear when construction is complete in 2014. [...]