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HAWC Simulation and Analysis

HAWC Simulation and Analysis. Buckley Hopper University of Maryland. Outline. HAWC geometry Simulation versions and locations of important files Usage instructions Time required to simulate Sensitivity to a Crab-like source Areas of further study. 30 PMTs. 30 PMTs. 3mm. 3mm. 160.08m.

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HAWC Simulation and Analysis

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  1. HAWC Simulation and Analysis Buckley Hopper University of Maryland

  2. Outline • HAWC geometry • Simulation versions and locations of important files • Usage instructions • Time required to simulate • Sensitivity to a Crab-like source • Areas of further study

  3. 30 PMTs 30 PMTs 3mm 3mm 160.08m 2m 2m 2cm 5m 4m 3.5m 145m HAWC Geometry • 30x30 PMTs • 5-meter spacing • 4-meter depth • Full-height curtains • Building • 3-mm-thick steel walls and roof • 2-meter-high walls 3mm 3mm

  4. Simulation Versions and Locations of Important Files • Corsika version 6.5021 • g4sim version 2.1 • Corsika library /data/montecarlo/CorsikaHE • Geometry file g4sim/config/hawc900geom.dat • Survey file milinda/config_minihawc/hawc900survey.txt • g4sim output /data/montecarlo/sim/GEANT4/miniHAWC/sets/30x30/4300m /5mSpacing/4mDepth • Root file /data/montecarlo/sim/GEANT4/miniHAWC/root/ HAWC_4300m_5mSpacing_4mDepth_30x30_nonoise.root

  5. Usage Instructions: g4sim • Get and build g4sim • Get milinda (for survey file) • Point CONFIG_MINIHAWC environment variable at the milinda/config_minihawc directory • Set variables in config.pl to proper values for Corsika library, repository location • Set $GGeom in config.pl to hawc900geom.dat

  6. Usage Instructions: Making a Root File • Get milinda • Run makelibs in the lib directory • Use example UserTasks_MC.cc and accompanying makefile to build a milinda executable • Point CONFIG_MINIHAWC environment variable at the milinda/config_minihawc directory

  7. Usage Instructions: Using MMCAnalysis on a Root File • Get milinda • Run makelibs in the lib directory • In a root script, use the command gSystem->Load(“<milinda_dir>/lib/ MMCAnalysis.so"); • Then use Milagro_MC *mc = new Milagro_MC(“<root_file>"); • Look at tools/MMCAnalysis.cc and include/MMCAnalysis.h for further information

  8. Time Required to Simulate • 1 million gamma showers takes about 15 days of cpu time (average job of 20,000 showers requires ~7.24 hours). • 1 million proton showers takes about 20 days of cpu time (average job of 38,000 showers requires ~18.79 hours). • Limiting factor is the proton showers. • Example: nhit>200 and cxpe=8, only 1 in 116852 protons passes the cuts. • Currently have 1,508,971 gammas and 2,453,891 protons simulated, and growing.

  9. Sensitivity to a Crab-Like Source Relative to Milagro • Using standard cuts, the Milagro Monte-Carlo predicts 9 gammas per day from the Crab, with a background of 2.5 protons per day. This assumes a 1.2-degree bin size. • In the Milagro experiment, we observe 10 gammas per day from the Crab, with a background of 1500 protons per day. • I use Sensi with a Crab spectrum and different nhit/nfit and cxpe cuts and an optimum bin size for each set of cuts to generate a rate of gammas and protons per day for HAWC. • To get an estimate of the signal and background for HAWC: • HSig = MilSig*(HGRate/MilGRate) • HBkg = MilBkg*(HPRate/MilPRate)*(HBin/MilBin)^2 • To find the sensitivity of HAWC relative to Milagro for different cuts, I use the following: • Q = (MilBin/HBin)*(HGRate/MilGRate)/sqrt(HPRate/MilPRate)

  10. Table of Sensitivity Results

  11. Sensitivity Results Sliced in nFit

  12. HAWC

  13. Further Study • Need more protons to explore the highest energies. Want to produce a plot of HAWC sensitivity versus other detectors for a Crab-like source. • Need to examine sensitivity to other types of sources, GRBs, etc. • Modify geometry in various ways – make building more realistic, look at other tube and curtain layouts.

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