The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to deliver high performance over thirty years of operation. The camera is composed of an hexagonal photo-detection plane made of custom designed large area hexagonal silicon photomultipliers and a high throughput, highly configurable, fully digital readout and trigger system (DigiCam). The camera will be installed on the telescope structure at the H. Niewodnicza{\'n}ski institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow in fall 2015. In this contribution, we review the steps that led to the development of the innovative photo-detection plane and readout electronics, and we describe the test and calibration strategy adopted.
@article{arxiv.1508.06453,
title = {The SST-1M camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {E. J. Schioppa and F. Cadoux and A. Christov and D. della Volpe and Y. Favre and M. Heller and T. Montaruli and A. Porcelli and M. Rameez and I. Troyano Pujadas and W. Bilnik and J. Blocki and L. Bogacz and T. Bulik and M. Curylo and M. Dyrda and A. Frankowski and L. Grudniki and M. Grudzinska and B. Idzkowski and M. Jamrozy and M. Janiak and J. Kasperek and K. Lalik and E. Lyard and E. Mach and D. Mandat and A. Marszalek and J. Michaowski and R. Moderski and A. Neronov and J. Niemiec and M. Ostrowski and P. Pasko and M. Pech and E. Prandini and P. Rajda and P. Schovanek and K. Seweryn and K. Skowron and V. Sliusar and M. Sowinski and L. Stawarz and M. Stodulska and M. Stodulski and S. Toscano and R. Walter and M. Wiecek and A. Zagdanski and K. Zietara and P. Zychowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06453},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894; Full consortium author list at http://cta-observatory.org