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Cerenkov Events Seen by The TALE Air Fluorescence Detector
The Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) is a hybrid, Air Fluorescence
Detector (FD) / Scintillator Array, designed to study cosmic ray initiated
showers at energies above eV. Located in the western Utah
desert, the TALE FD is comprised of 10 telescopes which cover the elevation
range 31-58 in addition to 14 telescopes with elevation coverage of
3-31.
As with all other FD's, a subset of the shower events recorded by TALE are
ones for which the Cerenkov light produced by the shower particles dominates
the total observed light signal. In fact, for the telescopes with higher
elevation coverage, low energy Cerenkov events form the vast majority of
triggered cosmic ray events. In the typical FD data analysis procedure, this
subset of events is discarded and only events for which the majority of signal
photons come from air fluorescence are kept.
In this talk, I will report on a study to reconstruct the "Cerenkov Events"
seen by the high elevation viewing telescopes of TALE. Monte Carlo studies and
a first look at real events observed by TALE look very promising. Even as a
monocular detector, the geometrical reconstruction method employed in this
analysis allows for a pointing accuracy on the order of a degree. Preliminary
Monte Carlo studies indicate that, the expected energy resolution is better
than 25. It may be possible to extend the low energy reach of TALE to below
eV. This would be the first time a detector designed specifically as
an air fluorescence detector is used as an imaging Cerenkov detector.Comment: Presentation at the DPF 2013 Meeting of the American Physical Society
Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Cruz, California, August 13-17, 2013.
5 pages, 2 figure
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Large Size Telescope
The two arrays of the Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory Cherenkov
Telescope Array (CTA) will include four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) each with
a 23 m diameter dish and 28 m focal distance. These telescopes will enable CTA
to achieve a low-energy threshold of 20 GeV, which is critical for important
studies in astrophysics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. This work
presents the key specifications and performance of the current LST design in
the light of the CTA scientific objectives.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic
Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at
arXiv:1307.223
Studies of the nature of the low-energy, gamma-like background for Cherenkov Telescope Array
The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide
unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy ( <~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov
telescopes. In order to exploit fully the potential of the telescopes the
standard analysis methods for gamma/hadron separation might need to be revised.
We study the composition of the background by identifying events composed
mostly of a single electromagnetic subcascade or double subcascade from a
{\pi}0 (or another neutral meson) decay. We apply the standard simulation and
analysis chain of CTA to evaluate the potential of the standard analysis to
reject such events.Comment: All CTA contributions at arXiv:1709.03483. Proc. of the 35th
International Cosmic Ray Conference, Busan, Kore
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