@inproceedings{e9d6bec5daa7420bbc4d95f812cde5fd,
title = "A compact high energy camera for the cherenkov telescope array",
abstract = "The Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) is a camera-development project involving UK, US, Japanese and Dutch institutes for the dual-mirror Small-Sized Telescopes (SST-2M) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Two CHEC prototypes, based on different photosensors are funded and will be assembled and tested in the UK over the next ≈18 months. CHEC is designed to record flashes of Cherenkov light lasting from a few to a hundred nanoseconds, with typical RMS image width and length of ∼ 0.2◦ × 1.0◦, and has a 9◦ field of view. The physical camera geometry is dictated by the telescope optics: a curved focal surface with radius of curvature 1 m and diameter ∼35 cm is required. CHEC is designed to work with both the ASTRI and GATE SST-2M telescope structures and will include an internal LED flasher system for calibration. The first CHEC prototype will be based on multi-anode photomultipliers (MAPMs) and the second on silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs or MPPCs). The first prototype will soon be installed on the ASTRI SST-2M prototype structure on Mt. Etna.",
keywords = "Cherenkov Telescope Array, Gamma-rays, Instrumentation",
author = "{FOR THE CTA CONSORTIUM.} and Daniel, {M. K.} and White, {R. W.} and D. Berge and J. Buckley and Chadwick, {P. M.} and G. Cotter and S. Funk and T. Greenshaw and N. Hidaka and J. Hinton and J. Lapington and S. Markoff and P. Moore and S. Nolan and S. Ohm and A. Okumura and D. Ross and L. Sapozhnikov and J. Schmoll and P. Sutcliffe and J. Sykes and H. Tajima and Varner, {G. S.} and J. Vandenbroucke and J. Vink and D. Williams",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica. All Rights Reserved.; 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013 ; Conference date: 02-07-2013 Through 09-07-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013",
publisher = "Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013",
}