Speaker
Dr
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
Description
The H.E.S.S. experiment of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) operational since 2004, has discovered many new sources of cosmic-ray acceleration and searched for fundamental physics. In September 2012, a fifth and larger telescope was inaugurated, lowering the energy threshold and starting the second phase of the experiment. In the coming years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the first high energy gamma-ray observatory. Consisting of two arrays of several dozens of telescopes of different sizes, it aims at increasing the sensitivity of current experiments by one order of magnitude and enlarge the energy window from around 10 GeV to 100 TeV. In this presentation, I will discussed some results and prospects of these two experiments in the search of new physics.
Author
Dr
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
