The AdvCam: Designing the future cameras for the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

by Matthieu Heller (DPNC - Université de Genève)

Wednesday 19 Feb 2025, 11:15 → 12:45 Europe/Zurich

Grand Auditorium (Ecole de physique)

An international collaboration is developing the AdvCam, the next-generation camera for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, designed specifically for the Large-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. AdvCam incorporates cutting-edge Silicon Photomultipliers and a fully digital readout system, setting new standards for performance and efficiency.
The upgraded camera will feature four times more pixels for the same field of view, enabling finer image resolution and significantly improving angular precision and background noise rejection. To cope with the increase in number of pixels, many technological challenges are being tackled, from low power and high speed integrated chip design to real-time processing on hardware accelerators.
This technological leap will lower the energy threshold and enhance the sensitivity, unlocking new potential for gamma-ray astronomy. In this seminar, the performance of the camera’s core building blocks and its innovative architecture, which together enable unprecedented triggering capabilities will be discussed. The latest performance results from realistic simulations, highlighting the transformative capabilities of this next-generation instrument will also be shown.

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