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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest cosmic gamma ray detector ever built in the world. It will be installed at two different sites in the North and South hemispheres and should be operational for about 30 years. In order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Hénault , P. O. Petrucci , L. jocou , B. Khélifi , P. Manigot , S. Hormigos , J. Knodlseder , J. F. Olive , P. Jean , M. Punch

Direct measurements of VEM using scintillating plastic plates in water Cherenkov prototype detectors and a muon flux model were previously used to reproduce the charge histogram of a detector. In these measurements the VEM has a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 L. Otiniano , Ch. Alvarado

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. HAWC will consist of 300 large water tanks covering an area of about 22000 square meters and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Zaborov

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konrad Bernloehr

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma ray observatory, aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 D. Nieto , T. B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , M. Limon , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Wilcox

The HAWC collaboration has recently completed the construction of a gamma-ray observatory at an altitude of 4100 meters on the slope of the Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico. In order to achieve an optimal angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Hugo A. Ayala Solares , Michael Gerhardt , C. Michelle Hui , Robert J. Lauer , Zhixiang Ren , Francisco Salesa Greus , Hao Zhou

The CTA is the next generation of ground based very high energy gamma ray Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Since observations with this technique are affected by atmospheric conditions, an accurate knowledge of the atmospheric…

Currently the detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays for astrophysics rely on the measurement of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays with larger field of views but also larger energy thresholds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 P. Assis , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Blanco , R. Conceição , B. D'Ettoree Piazzoli , A. de Angelis , M. Doro , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , G. Matthiae , M. Pimenta , R. Shellard , B. Tomé

ARGO-YBJ is a full coverage air shower array located at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l., 606 g/cm^2) recording data with a duty cycle $\geq$85% and an energy threshold of a few hundred GeV. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Di Sciascio

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

In this article, the potential of water Cherenkov detectors equipped with multi-PMT modules for background-free upward-going neutrino detection and improved direction reconstruction is demonstrated. By analyzing signal time traces with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-08 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Colalillo , R. Conceição , B. S. González , V. M. Grieco , F. Guarino , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé , M. Waqas

The HADAR experiment, which will be constructed in Tibet, China, combines the wide-angle advantages of traditional EAS array detectors with the high sensitivity advantages of focused Cherenkov detectors. Its physics objective is to observe…

SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. The detector acquired data for two years…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-20 SNO+ Collaboration , : , M. R. Anderson , S. Andringa , M. Askins , D. J. Auty , F. Barão , N. Barros , R. Bayes , E. W. Beier , A. Bialek , S. D. Biller , E. Blucher , M. Boulay , E. Caden , E. J. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , M. Chen , O. Chkvorets , B. Cleveland , D. Cookman , J. Corning , M. A. Cox , C. Deluce , M. M. Depatie , F. Di Lodovico , J. Dittmer , E. Falk , N. Fatemighomi , V. Fischer , R. Ford , K. Frankiewicz , A. Gaur , K. Gilje , O. I. González-Reina , D. Gooding , C. Grant , J. Grove , A. L. Hallin , D. Hallman , J. Hartnell , W. J. Heintzelman , R. L. Helmer , J. Hu , R. Hunt-Stokes , S. M. A. Hussain , A. S. Inácio , C. J. Jillings , T. Kaptanoglu , P. Khaghani , H. Khan , J. R. Klein , L. L. Kormos , B. Krar , C. Kraus , C. B. Krauss , T. Kroupová , I. Lam , B. J. Land , A. LaTorre , I. Lawson , L. Lebanowski , C. Lefebvre , A. Li , J. Lidgard , Y. H. Lin , Y. Liu , V. Lozza , M. Luo , A. Maio , S. Manecki , J. Maneira , R. D. Martin , N. McCauley , A. B. McDonald , M. Meyer , C. Mills , I. Morton-Blake , S. Nae , M. Nirkko , L. J. Nolan , H. M. O'Keeffe , G. D. Orebi Gann , J. Page , W. Parker , J. Paton , S. J. M. Peeters , T. Pershing , L. Pickard , G. Prior , P. Ravi , A. Reichold , S. Riccetto , R. Richardson , M. Rigan , J. Rose , J. Rumleskie , I. Semenec , F. Shaker , M. K. Sharma , P. Skensved , M. Smiley , R. Stainforth , R. Svoboda , B. Tam , J. Tseng , E. Turner , S. Valder , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. G. C. Veinot , C. J. Virtue , J. Wang , M. Ward , J. J. Weigand , J. R. Wilson , A. Wright , J. P. Yanez , M. Yeh , S. Yu , T. Zhang , Y. Zhang , K. Zuber , A. Zummo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-,medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm , A. Bouvier

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field of view (1.8 Sr) and high duty cycle (>95% up-time) detector of unique capabilities for the study of TeV gamma-ray sources. Installed at an altitude of 4100m in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alberto Carramiñana

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is about to enter construction phase and one of its main key science projects is to perform an unbiased survey in search of extragalactic sources. We make use of both the latest blazar gamma--ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Andrea De Franco , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Garret Cotter

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very-high energy gamma-ray air-shower Cherenkov observatory. CTA will consist of many segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two arrays, one in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , J. Dick , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for g -rays with energies between some ten GeV and a few hundred TeV. CTA is currently in the advanced design phase and will consist of arrays with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Shayduk , S. Vorobiov , U. Schwanke , R. Wischnewski