David Hanna

Physics Department McGill University Ernest Rutherford Physics Building 3600 University Street Montréal, QC Canada   H3A 2T8 Phone : 514-398-6510 Fax : 514-398-3733 Email: hanna@physics.mcgill.ca Web: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~hanna/

Research field : My research interests are in experimental high energy physics at both ends of the distance scale; I have worked in particle physics at accelerator laboratories and am now participating in a program of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy.

Description of the research project:
I am a member of the VERITAS collaboration. We have just finished building a third-generation detector for gamma rays on the lower slopes of Mount Hopkins in Arizona. The detector comprises an array of four 12-metre diameter imaging telescopes. We can detect gamma rays with energies from about 100 GeV to beyond 10 TeV. You can read about it in a CERN Courier article that I wrote.

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