Speaker
Dr
Jakub Vicha
(Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Description
The surface detection of gamma-ray showers has the advantage of a very high duty cycle and wide field-of-view observations across the sky in comparison to Cherenkov telescopes. The scientific potential of a wide-field gamma-ray observatory has already been demonstrated by the experiments HAWC, ARGO and LHAASO in the Northern hemisphere. The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) will be located at a site in South America at an altitude above 4400 m a.s.l., and cover an energy range from 100s of GeV to 100s of TeV. I will present the scientific perspectives and concept for the future experiment SWGO, which is now starting its R&D phase.
Primary author
Dr
Jakub Vicha
(Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
