23 January 2017 to 3 February 2017
Campus of USP in Sao Paulo
Brazil/East timezone

The New SiPMT's for the next cameras for the Cerenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Telescopes

26 Jan 2017, 17:20
1h 10m
Abraão de Moraes Auditorium (IF) (Campus of USP in Sao Paulo)

Abraão de Moraes Auditorium (IF)

Campus of USP in Sao Paulo

Speaker

Prof. Francesco Giordano (University of Bari and INFN, IT)

Description

Prof. Giordano at the University of Bari, Italy is Cosmic ray physics expert. Actually working in the Fermi NASA mission for gamma ray exploration of the universe.
Also working on the development of a Silicon Photomltipliers camera for VeryHighEnergy astroparticle application Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This lecture will present the CTA experiment and the new developments that led to the application of the SiPMT technology to build cameras based on this technology instead of the Multi-Anode PMTs.
His lecture will be complemented by a dedicated Hands on Lab.

Convener: Edivaldo Moura Santos (IF-USP)

Presentation materials