Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10303 - Particles and field physics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Astroparticle Physics

ISSN

0927-6505

e-ISSN

1873-2852

Svazek periodika

72

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

January

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

11-31

Kód UT WoS článku

000362143000002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84962646661