Conveners
Future Detectors
- Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
Future Detectors
- Tom Weisgarber (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
David Williams
(UC Santa Cruz)
10/11/2016, 14:00
Future detectors
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a new observatory for the study of
very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, designed to achieve in the ~30 GeV to ~100 TeV energy band an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared to currently operating instruments: VERITAS, MAGIC, and H.E.S.S. CTA will probe known sources with unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution, and spectral...
Dr
Michael Punch
(LnU & APC/CNRS-IN2P3)
10/11/2016, 14:30
Hardware
ALTO is a concept/project in the exploratory phase since ~2013, named by the Astroparticle Group at Linnaeus University (LnU) for a project to build a wide-field Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory at very high altitude in the Southern hemisphere. This will explore the sky in the central region of our Galaxy at very-high-energies, with also the possibility to act as a trigger or...
Satyendra Thoudam
(Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden)
10/11/2016, 15:00
Future detectors
ALTO is an all-sky field-of-view detector array for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, proposed to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere at an altitude of ~ 5.1 km above sea level. The array will use water Cherenkov detectors, as in the HAWC observatory, to detect air showers induced by high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays in the atmosphere, but it will be designed to attain a lower energy...
Dr
Ruben Conceição
(LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)
10/11/2016, 16:00
Future detectors
The detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays to study astrophysical sources relies on the measurement of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays. While the former technique presents a better energy and angular resolution, and has a lower energy threshold, the latter gains significantly in duty cycle and survey area. We present, in this talk, the Large Array...
Dr
Kazumasa KAWATA
(ICRR, University of Tokyo)
10/11/2016, 16:30
Site
We are now proposing a new project to observe 10-1000 TeV gamma rays with very low background noise and wide field of view in the southern hemisphere. We call the ALPACA (Andes Large area PArticle Detector for Cosmic ray physics and Astronomy) project. The observatory will consist of 83,000 m^2 air shower array and 5,400 m^2 underground water-Cherenkov-type muon detector array constructed at...
Prof.
Thomas Bretz
(RWTH Aachen University)
10/11/2016, 17:00
The FAMOUS telescope is a quarter square meter Fluorescence telescope utilizing a Fresnel lens, silicon-based photo sensors (SiPMs) and a state-of-the-art readout system. Due to its compact design, the system is encapsulated in a carbon fiber reinforces plastic tube. This allows the application also in harsh environments. A prototype system (IceACT) is currently installed at South pole and...
