Sum-Trigger-II status and prospective physics
Creators
- 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.
Additional details
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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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 47065720
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AIR; ANALOG SYSTEMS; CAMERAS; CHERENKOV COUNTING; COSMIC PHOTONS; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; GAMMA ASTRONOMY; GAMMA DETECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; READOUT SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES; TRIGGER CIRCUITS
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DETECTION; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLUIDS; GASES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PHOTONS; PHOTOTUBES; PULSE CIRCUITS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: T 52.8 Di 18:30; No further information available