TeV instrumentation: current and future

J Sitarek - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the last 20 years, TeV astronomy has turned from a fledgling field, with only a handful
of sources, into a fully-developed astronomy discipline, broadening our knowledge on a …

Report of the topical group on particle dark matter for snowmass 2021

J Cooley, T Lin, WH Lippincott, TR Slatyer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This report summarizes the findings of the CF1 Topical Subgroup to Snowmass 2021, which
was focused on particle dark matter. One of the most important scientific goals of the next …

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of cosmic-ray and high-energy photon probes of particle dark matter

T Aramaki, M Boezio, J Buckley, E Bulbul… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This white paper discusses the current landscape and prospects for experiments sensitive to
particle dark matter processes producing photons and cosmic rays. Much of the gamma-ray …

High-density near-ultraviolet silicon photomultipliers: characterization of photosensors for Cherenkov light detection

G Ambrosi, M Ambrosio, C Aramo, B Bertucci… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have proven to be highly suitable
devices for applications where high sensitivity to low-intensity light and fast responses are …

Mirror production for the Cherenkov telescopes of the ASTRI mini-array and the MST project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

N La Palombara, G Sironi, E Giro… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next ground-based gamma-ray observatory in
the TeV γ-ray spectral region operating with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov …

Assembly and performance of SiPM arrays for the prototype SCT proposed for CTA

G Ambrosi, M Ambrosio, C Aramo, W Benbow… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Near Ultraviolet High Density (NUV-HD) SiPMs produced by Fondazione
Bruno Kessler have been employed to develop 16-pixel optical units to equip the focal plane …

The ASTRI Mini-Array: A new pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

S Scuderi - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
The ASTRI Mini-Array is an Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) project to build and
operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the Teide …

Applications of silicon photomultipliers in ground-based and spaceborne high-energy astrophysics

G Ambrosi, V Vagelli - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
Abstract Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor photosensors employed in a
wide spectrum of scientific, medical and industrial applications when fast time response and …

A SiPM multichannel ASIC for high Resolution Cherenkov Telescopes (SMART) developed for the pSCT camera telescope

C Aramo, E Bissaldi, M Bitossi, C Bonavolontà… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a Medium-Sized Telescope
proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The first prototype (named pSCT) has …

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

W Hofmann, R Zanin - Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility
for ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an …