Published 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Sum-Trigger-II status and prospective physics

  • 1. Max Planck Institut fuer Physik, Munich (Germany)
  • 2. Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain)
  • 3. Universita degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
  • 4. The University of Tokio (Japan)
  • 5. Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias, Tenerife (Spain)

Description

MAGIC is a stereoscopic system of 2 Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) for very high energy gamma-ray astronomy, located at La Palma (Spain). Lowering the energy threshold of IACTs is crucial for the observation of Pulsars, high redshift AGNs and GRBs. A novel trigger strategy, based on the analogue sum of a patch of pixels, can lead to a lower threshold compared to conventional digital triggers. In the last years, a major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes took place in order to optimize the performances, mainly in the low energy domain. The PMTs camera and the reflective surface of MAGIC-I, as well as both readout systems, have been deeply renovated. The last important milestone is the implementation of a new stereoscopic analogue trigger, dubbed Sum-Trigger-II. The installation successfully ended in 2014 and the first data set has been already taken. Currently the fine-tuning of the main parameters as well as the comparison with Monte Carlo studies is ongoing. In this talk the status of Sum-Trigger-II and the future prospective physics cases at very low energy are presented.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Wuppertal 2015 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 50(2)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
2015 DPG Spring meeting of the divisions physics education, extraterrestrial physics, radiation and medicine physics, particle physics and working group accelerator physics
Original Conference Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2015 der Fachverbaende Didaktik der Physik, Extraterrestrische Physik, Strahlen- und Medizinphysik, Teilchenphysik und dem Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
Dates
9-13 Mar 2015
Place
Wuppertal (Germany)

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Notes
Session: T 52.8 Di 18:30; No further information available