Future developments in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy

Abstract

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is a powerful tool to study cosmic-ray physics, providing a diagnostic of the high-energy processes at work in the most extreme astrophysical accelerators of the universe. Ground-based gamma-ray detectors apply a number of experimental techniques to measure the products of air showers induced by the primary gamma-rays over a wide energy range, from about 30 GeV to few PeV. These are based either on the measurement of the atmospheric Cherenkov light induced by the air showers, or the direct detection of the shower's secondary particles at ground level. Thanks to the recent development of new and highly sensitive ground-based gamma-ray detectors, important scientific results are emerging which motivate new experimental proposals, at various stages of implementation. In this chapter we will present the current expectations for future experiments in the field.

To appear in "Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics" by Springer (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo) - 59 pp

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