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GLAST LAT

The SLAC Large Area Telescope (LAT) team is preparing for new discoveries in the unexplored spectral, spatial, and temporal domains that the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission will reveal. GLAST is on schedule for launch in the fall of 2007. The Instrument Science Operations Center (LAT-ISOC), located at SLAC, will be responsible for the operation of the telescope in orbit. For details of the LAT instrument, science program, and collaboration see http://www-glast.stanford.edu/.

The SLAC LAT team works on fundamental physics issues related to gamma-ray observations with GLAST including the search for dark matter, and cosmic particle interaction, and acceleration mechanisms. The areas of research available for the summer students involve data analysis and/or code development using data from the Large Area Telescope and/or beam test modules and simulated data. The work will also involve operational aspects of the instrument.

Return to SLAC/INFN Summer Exchange Program for 2007.