Progress in Monte Carlo design and optimization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range. Both large-scale Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of CTA super-sets (including many different possible CTA layouts as sub-sets) and smaller-scale simulations dedicated to individual aspects were carried out and are on-going. We summarize results of the prior round of large-scale simulations, show where the design has now evolved beyond the conservative assumptions of the prior round and present first results from the on-going new round of MC simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.2773,
title = {Progress in Monte Carlo design and optimization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {K. Bernlöhr and A. Barnacka and Y. Becherini and O. Blanch Bigas and A. Bouvier and E. Carmona and P. Colin and G. Decerprit and F. Di Pierro and F. Dubois and C. Farnier and S. Funk and G. Hermann and J. A. Hinton and T. B. Humensky and T. Jogler and B. Khélifi and T. Kihm and N. Komin and J. -P. Lenain and R. López-Coto and G. Maier and D. Mazin and M. C. Medina and A. Moralejo and R. Moderski and S. J. Nolan and S. Ohm and E. de Oña Wilhelmi and R. D. Parsons and M. Paz Arribas and G. Pedaletti and S. Pita and H. Prokoph and C. B. Rulten and U. Schwanke and M. Shayduk and V. Stamatescu and P. Vallania and S. Vorobiov and R. Wischnewski and M. Wood and T. Yoshikoshi and A. Zech},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2773},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232