A Search for Microsecond Gamma Ray Bursts From Primordial Black Holes
The project is called SGARFACE (Short Gamma Ray Front Air Cherenkov Experiment) and is an atmospheric Cherenkov detector to provide sensitivity to short bursts of gamma rays of extraterrestrial origin. The detector is an addition to the Whipple 10m gamma ray telescope on Mt. Hopkins in southern Arizona and uses a digital trigger module for recognizing Cherenkov light flashes from gamma ray bursts. The digital trigger modules have been designed, tested and constructed at Iowa State University and have been installed at the Whipple 10m telescope. Operation of the experiment started in March 2003 and data collecting will likely continue until spring of 2005. A final results paper addressing a search for primordial black holes is likely to be finished by summer of 2005.
- Research Organization:
- Iowa State University (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-00ER41143
- OSTI ID:
- 827852
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/41143-1; 401-21-08; TRN: US0406479
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 12 Aug 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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