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A measurement of the proton plus helium spectrum of cosmic rays in the TeV region with HAWC
by HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. R. Angeles Camacho, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, K. P. Arunbabu, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, E. Belmont-Moreno, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, C. Espinoza, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, B. Hona, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, D. Kieda, G. J. Kunde, A. Lara, W. H. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Morales-Soto, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, R. Noriega-Papaqui, N. Omodei, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, H. Salazar, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, E. Willox, H. Zhou, C. de León, J. D. Álvarez, G. B. Yodh, A. Zepeda
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13350v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | Sept. 15, 2022, 6:14 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Arteaga-Velazquez, Juan Carlos |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI2022) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Experimental, Observational |
Abstract
HAWC is an air-shower detector designed to study TeV gamma and cosmic rays. The observatory is composed of a 22000m2 array of 300 water Cherenkov tanks (4.5m deep x 7.3m diameter) with 4 photomultipliers (PMT) each. The instrument registers the number of hit PMTs, the timing information and the total charge at the PMTs during the event. From these data, shower observables such as the arrival direction, the core position at ground, the lateral age and the primary energy are estimated. In this work, we study the distribution of the shower age vs the primary energy of a sample of shower data collected by HAWC from June 2015 to June 2019 and employ a shower-age cut based on predictions of QGSJET-II-04 to separate a subsample of events dominated by H and He primaries. Using these data and a dedicated analysis, we reconstruct the cosmic ray spectrum of H+He from 6 to 158 TeV, which shows the presence of a softening at around 24 TeV with a statistical significance of 4.1σ.
Sunil Gupta on 2022-09-20 [id 2834]
There are a few minor errors that should be corrected,
Introduction section L2 in-deep ---> in-depth
L5 detail studies---> detailed studies
L10 these energy regime---> this energy regime
Section 3,
P1 L6 Fig. 1, left ---> the left plot in Fig. 1
P1 L10 on Fig. 1, right ---> in the right plot in Fig. 1
P2 L2 For this aim, ---. For this reason
P2 L9 see Fig. 2, left ---> see left plot in Fig. 2
These minor mistakes are repeated throughout. I recommend that the authors correct them before resubmitting the paper.
Author: Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez on 2022-09-28 [id 2863]
(in reply to Sunil Gupta on 2022-09-20 [id 2834])We thank the reviewer for the corrections. We have fixed them in the new version of the document (v2).