Speaker
Dr
Satyendra Thoudam
(Linnaeus University)
Description
ALTO is a wide field-of-view air shower detector array proposed for very-high-energy
gamma-ray astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere. It will be a hybrid detector array
consisting of around a thousand detector units (each unit comprises of a water
Cherenkov detector and a scintillation detector) which will detect air showers induced
by very-high-energy gamma rays (above ~200 GeV) in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is
designed to attain a lower energy threshold, better angular resolution and improved
sensitivity with respect to the existing HAWC experiment in Mexico. In this
contribution, I will discuss the various science goals of ALTO, the design study and
expected performance of the array based on Monte-Carlo simulations, and present a
prototype array that is currently being developed in the campus of Linnaeus University
as well as future plans of the project.
Primary author
Dr
Satyendra Thoudam
(Linnaeus University)
Co-authors
Jean-Pierre Ernenwein
(Aix Marseille University, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
Michael Punch
(APC, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/lrfu, Obs de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France)
Yvonne Becherini
(Linnaeus University)
