Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378271%3A_____%2F16%3A00547835" target="_blank" >RIV/68378271:_____/16:00547835 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.008" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.008</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.008" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Original language description
We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a few hundred GeV to a few tens of TeV. We describe a novel, flexible detector Monte Carlo package, FAST (FAst Simulation for imaging air cherenkov Telescopes), that we use to simulate different array and telescope designs. The simulation is somewhat simplified to allow for efficient exploration over a large telescope design parameter space. We investigate a wide range of telescope performance parameters including optical resolution, camera pixel size, and light collection area. In order to ensure a comparison of the arrays at their maximum sensitivity, we analyze the simulations with the most sensitive techniques used in the field, such as maximum likelihood template reconstruction and boosted decision trees for background rejection.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN
0927-6505
e-ISSN
1873-2852
Volume of the periodical
72
Issue of the periodical within the volume
January
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
11-31
UT code for WoS article
000362143000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84962646661