Abstract
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a ground-based air-shower array deployed on the hillside of the Sierra Negra Volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico. HAWC comprises of 300 water Cherenkov detectors (WCDs), each WCD is equipped with four photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect secondary particles of the air-showers that are produced by the interaction of a primary particle (gamma-rays and cosmic rays) with the atmosphere. HAWC is able to reconstruct gamma-ray showers in the 100 GeV - 100 TeV energy range, but suffers from a lack of sensitivity when the particle showers core develop outside the WCD array. A proposed upgrade to fix this issue is to build an external array of smaller water detectors, called outriggers. A Outrigger comprises a PMT on the bottom of the tank. In this work the instrumentation and characterizing an Outrigger is presented, in order to know the behavior of this detector with as function of threshold voltage.
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