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Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

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Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle physics and cosmol ...

2011

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

IceCube has become the first neutrino telescope with a sensitivity below the TeV neutrino flux predicted from gamma-ray bursts if gamma-ray bursts are responsible for the observed cosmic-ray flux above 10(18) eV. Two separate analyses using the half-comple ...

2011

Spectral Broadening of Characteristic gamma-Ray Emission Peaks from C-12(He-3, p gamma)N-14 Reactions in Fusion Plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Gabriele Grosso

The spectral broadening of characteristic gamma-ray emission peaks from the reaction C-12(He-3, p gamma)N-14 was measured in D(He-3) plasmas of the JET tokamak with ion cyclotron resonance heating tuned to the fundamental harmonic of He-3. Intensities and ...

2011

IceCube sensitivity for neutrino flux from Fermi blazars in quiescent states

Mathieu Ribordy

We investigate the IceCube detection potential of very high energy neutrinos from blazars, for different classes of hadronic models, taking into account the limits imposed on the neutrino flux by the recent Fermi telescope observations. Assuming the observ ...

American Physical Society2009

The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping

Xiaoxia Bai

IceCube is a km-scale neutrino observatory under construction at the South Pole with sensors both in the deep ice (InIce) and on the surface (IceTop). The sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs). detect, digitize and timestamp the signals from optic ...

2009

Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars

Andrea Kraus

Magnetars(1) are young neutron stars with very strong magnetic fields of the order of 10(14)-10(15) G. They are detected in our Galaxy either as soft gamma-ray repeaters or anomalous X-ray pulsars. Soft gamma-ray repeaters are a rare type of gamma-ray tran ...

2008

A search for flaring very-high-energy cosmic gamma-ray sources with the L3+C muon spectrometer

Eduardo Sanchez, Horst Vogel, Aurelio Bay, Yu Lei, Jian Zhao, Camille Haller, Liang Sun, Qian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Matthias Weber, Ji Hyun Kim, Werner Lustermann, Xiao Wang, Yifei Guo, Xuan Yang, Zheng Wang

The L3+C muon detector at the CERN electron-positron collider, LEP, is used for the detection of very-high-energy cosmic gamma-ray sources through the observation of muons of energies above 20, 30, 50 and 100 GeV. Daily or monthly excesses in the rate of s ...

Elsevier2006