Development of the camera for the large size telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope array

The Large Size Telescopes, LSTs, located at the center of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, CTA, will be sensitive for low energy gamma-rays. The camera on the LST focal plane is optimized to detect low energy events based on a high photon detection efficiency and high speed electronics. Also the trigg...

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Autores: Barrio Uña, Juan Abel, Contreras González, José Luis, Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel, López Moya, Marcos, Tejedor Álvarez, Luis Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34773
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34773
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:537
539.1
Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope
CTA
Gamma-rays.
Electricidad
Electrónica (Física)
Física nuclear
2202.03 Electricidad
2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear
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Sumario:The Large Size Telescopes, LSTs, located at the center of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, CTA, will be sensitive for low energy gamma-rays. The camera on the LST focal plane is optimized to detect low energy events based on a high photon detection efficiency and high speed electronics. Also the trigger system is designed to detect low energy showers as much as possible. In addition, the camera is required to work stably without maintenance in a few tens of years. In this contribution we present the design of the camera for the first LST and the status of its development and production.