Overview of Cherenkov Telescope on-board EUSO-SPB2 for the Detection of Very-High-Energy Neutrinos
We present the status of the development of a Cherenkov telescope to be flown on a long-duration balloon flight, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an approved NASA balloon mission that is planned to fly in 2023 and is a precursor of the Probe o...
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Zusammenfassung: | We present the status of the development of a Cherenkov telescope to be flown
on a long-duration balloon flight, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super
Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an approved NASA balloon mission
that is planned to fly in 2023 and is a precursor of the Probe of Extreme
Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA), a candidate for an Astrophysics
probe-class mission. The purpose of the Cherenkov telescope on-board EUSOSPB2
is to classify known and unknown sources of backgrounds for future space-based
neutrino detectors. Furthermore, we will use the Earth-skimming technique to
search for Very-High-Energy (VHE) tau neutrinos below the limb (E > 10 PeV) and
observe air showers from cosmic rays above the limb. The 0.785 m^2 Cherenkov
telescope is equipped with a 512-pixel SiPM camera covering a 12.8{\deg} x
6.4{\deg} (Horizontal x Vertical) field of view. The camera signals are
digitized with a 100 MS/s readout system. In this paper, we discuss the status
of the telescope development, the camera integration, and simulation studies of
the camera response. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2109.01789 |