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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 26: Experimentelle Methoden der Astroteilchenphysik II

T 26.4: Vortrag

Montag, 9. März 2015, 17:30–17:45, I.13.70 (HS 27)

FAMOUS - The fluorescence telescope prototype — •Johannes Schumacher¹, Jan Auffenberg², Thomas Bretz¹, Thomas Hebbeker¹, Markus Lauscher¹, Lukas Middendorf¹, Tim Niggemann¹, Christine Peters¹, Merlin Schaufel², Dominik Sommer¹, and Maurice Stephan¹ — ¹III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University — ²III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University

One of the most successful techniques for the detection of air showers produced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are fluorescence telescopes. The light produced by de-exciting nitrogen in the atmosphere is typically detected by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This technique has been successfully used by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina for many years.

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) promise higher photon detection efficiencies than PMTs. This and other advantages motivate the construction of the fluorescence telescope prototype FAMOUS (First Auger Multi-pixel photon counter camera for the Observation of Ultra-high-energy air Showers) which makes use of SiPMs. In this talk we discuss the FAMOUS telescope with a new 64-pixel camera including power supply and DAQ.