An innovative silicon photomultiplier digitizing camera for gamma-ray astronomy

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作者
Heller, M. [1 ]
Schioppa, E. Jr [1 ]
Porcelli, A. [1 ]
Pujadas, I. Troyano [1 ]
Zietara, K. [5 ]
della Volpe, D. [1 ]
Montaruli, T. [1 ]
Cadoux, F. [1 ]
Favre, Y. [1 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [1 ,12 ]
Christov, A. [1 ]
Prandini, E. [2 ]
Rajda, P. [9 ]
Rameez, M. [1 ]
Bilnik, W. [9 ]
Blocki, J. [3 ]
Bogacz, L. [11 ]
Borkowski, J. [7 ]
Bulik, T. [4 ]
Frankowski, A. [7 ]
Grudzinska, M. [4 ]
Idzkowski, B. [5 ]
Jamrozy, M. [5 ]
Janiak, M. [7 ]
Kasperek, J. [9 ]
Lalik, K. [9 ]
Lyard, E. [2 ]
Mach, E. [3 ]
Mandat, D. [10 ]
Marszalek, A. [3 ,5 ]
Miranda, L. D. Medina [1 ]
Michalowski, J. [3 ]
Moderski, R. [7 ]
Neronov, A. [2 ]
Niemiec, J. [3 ]
Ostrowski, M. [5 ]
Pasko, P. [6 ]
Pech, M. [10 ]
Schovanek, P. [10 ]
Seweryn, K. [6 ]
Sliusar, V. [2 ,8 ]
Skowron, K. [3 ]
Stawarz, L. [5 ]
Stodulska, M. [3 ,5 ]
Stodulski, M. [3 ]
Walter, R. [2 ]
Wiecek, M. [9 ]
Zagdanski, A. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, DPNC, 24 Quai Ernest Ansermet, Geneva, Switzerland
[2] Univ Geneva, Dept Astron, 16 Chemin Ecogia, Geneva, Switzerland
[3] H Niewodniczanskiego Polskiej Akad Nauk, Inst Fizyki Jadrowej, Ul Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
[4] Univ Warsaw, Astron Observ, Al Ujazdowskie 4, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland
[5] Jagellonian Univ, Astron Observ, Ul Orla 171, PL-30244 Krakow, Poland
[6] Polskiej Akad Nauk, Ctr Badan Kosmicznych, Warsaw, Poland
[7] Polish Acad Sci, Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, Warsaw, Poland
[8] Taras Shevchenko Natl Univ Kyiv, Astron Observ, Observ Str 3, Kiev, Ukraine
[9] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Al Mickiewicza 30, Krakow, Poland
[10] Czech Acad Sci, Inst Phys, 17 Listopadu 50,Olomouc & Na Slovance 2, Prague, Czech Republic
[11] Jagiellonian Univ, Dept Informat Technol, Ul Prof Stanislawa Lojasiewicza 11, PL-30348 Krakow, Poland
[12] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Fac Sci, Ave Franklin Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2017年 / 77卷 / 01期
关键词
ATMOSPHERIC CHERENKOV TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4609-z
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
The single-mirror small-size telescope (SST-1M) is one of the three proposed designs for the small-size telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project. The SST-1M will be equipped with a 4 m-diameter segmented reflector dish and an innovative fully digital camera based on silicon photo-multipliers. Since the SST subarray will consist of up to 70 telescopes, the challenge is not only to build telescopes with excellent performance, but also to design them so that their components can be commissioned, assembled and tested by industry. In this paper we review the basic steps that led to the design concepts for the SST-1M camera and the ongoing realization of the first prototype, with focus on the innovative solutions adopted for the photodetector plane and the readout and trigger parts of the camera. In addition, we report on results of laboratory measurements on real scale elements that validate the camera design and show that it is capable of matching the CTA requirements of operating up to high moonlight background conditions.
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