# ICHEP 2016 Chicago

3-10 August 2016
Chicago IL USA
US/Central timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

## Measurement of the Cosmic-ray Electron Spectrum with VERITAS (15' + 5')

4 Aug 2016, 15:10
20m
Chicago 10

### Chicago 10

Oral Presentation Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology

### Speaker

David Staszak (University of Chicago)

### Description

Cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs) at GeV-TeV energies are a unique probe of our local Galactic neighbourhood. CREs lose energy rapidly via inverse Compton scattering and synchrotron processes while propagating in the Galaxy, effectively placing a maximal propagation distance for TeV electrons of order $\sim$1 kpc. Within this window, production of CREs can come from a handful of known, nearby astrophysical sources capable of exciting CREs to that energy or from more exotic production mechanisms, like particle dark matter. VERITAS is an array of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in southern Arizona and is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of very high energy (VHE: >100 GeV) gamma rays and cosmic rays. In this presentation, we'll discuss the VERITAS measurement of an electron plus positron cosmic ray spectrum to TeV energies.

### Primary author

David Staszak (University of Chicago)