Speaker
Tjark Miener
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Description
Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) observe extended air showers (EASs) initiated by the interaction of very-high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays with the atmosphere. Besides the Cherenkov light emitted by the EAS, the IACT cameras continuously record light from the night sky background (NSB). The trigger and data acquisition system of IACT cameras is designed to reduce the NSB and electronic noise by carrying out an on-the-fly event selection process. We present some prospective studies for an application of an Artificial-Intelligence-based trigger system for the next-generation of IACT cameras. As a high-level step of the novel trigger system, we show that gamma/hadron separation could be performed at trigger-level.
Author
Tjark Miener
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
