First Avalanche-photodiode camera test (FACT): A novel camera using G-APDs for the observation of very high-energy γ-rays with Cherenkov telescopes

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Braun, Isabel
Commichau, Sebastian C.
Rissi, Michael
Backes, Michael
Biland, Adrian
Bretz, Thomas
Britvitch, Ilia
Commichau, Volker
von Gunten, Hanspeter
Hildebrand, Dorothée
Horisberger, Urs
Kranich, Daniel
Lorenz, Eckart
Lustermann, Werner
Mannheim, Karl
Neise, Dominik
Pauss, Felicitas
Pohl, Martin
Renker, Dieter
Rhode, Wolfgang
Röser, Ulf
Straumann, Ulrich
Viertel, Gert
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Date
2009-10-21
Type
    Conference Paper
Abstract
We present a project for a novel camera using Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiodes (G-APDs), to be installed in a small telescope (former HEGRA CT3) on the MAGIC site in La Palma (Canary Island, Spain). This novel type of semiconductor photon detector provides several superior features compared to con Show more
Publication status
published
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Editor
Bourgeois, P.
Cordier, B.
El Mamouni, H.
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Book title
New Developments In Photodetection NDIP08: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on New Developments in Photodetection
Journal / series
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume
610(1)
Pages / Article No.
400 - 403
Publisher
Elsevier
Event
5th International Conference on New Developments in Photodetection (NDIP 2008), Aix-les-Bains, France, June 15-20, 2008
Subject
extensive air showers; gamma-ray; Geiger-mode Avalanche-photodiodides; solid-state photon detectors; Air Cherenkov telescope
Organisational unit
03381 - Pauss, Felicitas (emeritus)  
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