FlashCam: A fully digital camera for CTA telescopes

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/ Authors

G. Pühlhofer, C. Bauer, A. Biland, D. Florin, C. Föhr, A. Gadola, G. Hermann, C. Kalkuhl, J. Kasperek, T. Kihm

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J. Koziol, A. Manalaysay, A. Marszalek, P. J. Rajda, T. Schanz, S. Steiner, U. Straumann, C. Tenzer, P. Vogler, A. Vollhardt, Q. Weitzel, K. Winiarski, K. Zietara

/ Abstract

The future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of several tens of telescopes of different mirror sizes. CTA will provide next generation sensitivity to very high energy photons from few tens of GeV to >100 TeV. Several focal plane instrumentation options are currently being evaluated inside the CTA consortium. In this paper, the current status of the FlashCam prototyping project is described. FlashCam is based on a fully digital camera readout concept and features a clean separation between photon detector plane and signal digitization/triggering electronics.