Conveners
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics
- Werner Hofmann
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics
- Werner Hofmann
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics
- Gregory Hallewell (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics
- Gregory Hallewell (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects GeV-to-PeV+ neutrinos via the Cherenkov light produced by secondary charged particles from neutrino interactions with the South Pole ice. Relying on over 5000 spherical Digital Optical Modules (DOM), each deployed with a single downward-facing photo- multiplier tube (PMT) and arrayed across 86 strings over a cubic-kilometer, IceCube has measured the...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector with the primary physics goal of the neutrino mass hierarchy determination. The detector will be built in a laboratory at 700-m underground. . A Water Cherenkov veto system will be built for cosmic muon detection and background reduction. Outside the central detector, the pool is filled with 34 kton...
The Large-Sized Telescopes (LST) are being deploying four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in the Northern site of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The first prototype, LST-1, has been inaugurated at La Palma (Spain) in 2018 and is being commissioned since then while the three others will be built during three coming years. Thanks to their large dish of 23 m diameter, they...
The ASTRI Mini-Array is an INAF project to build and operate a facility to study astronomical sources emitting very high energy in the TeV spectral band. It consists of a group of nine innovative aplanatic dual mirror Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes of 4 m diameter. The telescopes will be installed at the Teide Astronomical Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in...
An EU supported Design Study has been carried out during the years 2018-2021 of how the 5 MW linear accelerator (linac) of the European Spallation Source under construction in Lund, Sweden, can be used to generate a world-uniquely intense neutrino beam for precision measurement of the CP violating phase δCP. As there are definite limits, related to uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus...
The High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes (IACTs) to study gamma-ray emission from astrophysical objects in the Southern hemisphere. It is the only hybrid array of IACTs, composed of telescopes with different collection area and footprint, individually optimised for a specific energy range. Collectively, the array is most sensitive...
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure housing two underwater Cherenkov detectors located in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two configurations which are currently under construction: ARCA with 230 detection units corresponding to 1 cubic kilometre of instrumented water volume and ORCA with 115 detection units corresponding to a volume of 7 Mton. The ARCA (Astroparticle Research with...
MAGIC is a system of two 17-m diameter Cherenkov telescopes operating at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) since 2009. The telescopes detect very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma rays ranging from few tens of GeV to few tens of TeV. In this contribution I will present a selection of the latest scientific results obtained by the MAGIC...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory, planned to comprise two arrays of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the northern and southern hemispheres. Three telescope sizes are required to cover the CTA gamma-ray energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV.
An array of several tens of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) at the...
The Schwarzschild Couder Telescope (SCT) is a dual mirror medium-sized telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation very-high energy (from about 20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray observatory. The SCT design consists of a dual-mirror optics and a high resolution camera with a field of view (FoV) of 8 degrees squared, which will allow exceptional performance in...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a high-energy particle physics magnetic spectrometer installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011, successfully operating and taking data since then. The goal of the experiment is to carry out precise measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range from GeV/n to TeV/n. AMS includes a Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH), which provides a...
Hyper-Kamiokande is a next-generation neutrino experiment that is under construction in Japan. Its multi-decade physics program addresses appealing, unsolved questions in physics, like the discovery of CP-violation in the leptonic sector and searches for proton decay. It will be used to make a long-baseline neutrino oscillation measurement using the upgraded J-PARC accelerator, upgraded T2K...
