Published June 2, 2000 | Version v1
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VERITAS: Very energetic radiation imaging telescope array system

Creators

  • 1. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
  • 2. University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT (United Kingdom)
  • 3. University College, Dublin (Ireland)
  • 4. Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)
  • 5. Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Amado, Arizona 85645-0097 (United States)
  • 6. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (United States)

Description

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERI-TAS) is a wide energy range (50 GeV-50 TeV) atmospheric Cherenkov detector and will start operation in 2004. The design is driven by a major scientific interest in jets of active galactic nuclei, probing the intergalactic IR fields with TeV γ-ray beams, measuring the high energy spectrum of γ-ray bursts and galactic sources of cosmic rays. Also γ-rays signatures of quantum gravity, neutralinos and primordial black holes constitute the exotic scientific motivations to built a highly versatile detector that can be operated in various modes. The technical concept and design of the seven-telescope array system is described

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1063/1.1291418;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
515
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 515-527
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
26. International cosmic ray conference
Acronym
ICRC 1999
Dates
17-25 Aug 1999
Place
Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34069060
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; CAMERAS; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; GAMMA SPECTRA; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; GEV RANGE; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SENSITIVITY; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; TEV RANGE; THEORETICAL DATA
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DATA; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; INFORMATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUMERICAL DATA; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA; SPECTROMETERS

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.