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LOCATION:5280 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts\, NPAC (Nuclear/
 Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Joshua Wood\, University of Maryland
DESCRIPTION:The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a 
 new ground-based TeV gamma-ray observatory operating in the high mount
 ains of Mexico that is giving us a unique view of the high-energy sky.
  Its high sensitivity\, wide field of view (~2 sr)\, and >95% uptime m
 ake it an ideal instrument for discovering gamma-ray burst (GRB) emiss
 ion at ~100 GeV. Such a discovery would provide key information about 
 the origins of prompt GRB emission as well as constraints on extragala
 ctic background light models and the violation of Lorentz invariance. 
 In this talk we will review HAWC performance and  present results conc
 entrating on our initial search for very high energy gamma-ray emissio
 n from GRBs with significant sensitivity to short transients with ener
 gies as small as 50 GeV.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4059
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