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At WIPAC, research focuses on particle astrophysics, which uses neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma rays to explore the extreme universe. Very powerful processes dominate the cosmos...
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Monday, November 25, 2013 - 2:45pm
Last week, Nature published an article on the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, a gamma-ray observatory near Puebla, Mexico. WIPAC at UW–Madison is a collaborating institution.
The article details plans for HAWC, scheduled for completion in fall 2014. When complete, it will consist of 300 water-filled tanks housing particle detectors.
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Monday, December 23, 2013 - 2:15pm
Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), was recently elected as an American Physical Society Fellow for 2013.
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Monday, April 15, 2013 - 1:00pm
As covered in a recent BBC article, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophyics Center (WIPAC) postdoc Tom Weisgarber shared results at the April American Physical Society meeting from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory, or HAWC.
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