The MAGIC telescope is an imaging Cherenkov detector
designed for investigations of High Energy Gamma Rays.
This Experiment is situated at La Palma (Canary Islands). For more details
on MAGIC, see the MAGIC home page.
The MPI is one of the most active institutes in the MAGIC collaboration.
For more information on the institute, visit the
MPI home page.
Visit the collaboration page
for MPI group members in MAGIC.
If you are possibly interested in joining the MAGIC MPI group, go to
open posts.
The MPI group is headed by
Dr.Razmick Mirzoyan
The MPI directorate member responsible for MAGIC is
Prof.Masahiro Teshima
The MPI particpation in MAGIC includes:
- Construction and maintenance of detector parts: telescope structure,
testing and installation of photomultipliers for the camera,
analogue data transmission from camera to control room (using optical fibres),
- Analysis software: overall structure, gamma/hadron separation, flux and
energy spectrum calculations
- Hardware improvement program for the future: Hybrid photomultipliers with improved
quantum efficiency, and Si-photosensors, in close collaboration with the
HalbleiterLabor or
Semiconductor laboratory in Munich.
- Software improvement program for the future: New methods for
gamma/hadron separation at low energies
- Physics program: Dynamics and Structure of the cosmic objects Supernova
Remnants (SNRs) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Gamma Ray Burst phenomena.
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