Particle Astrophysics with Gamma-Ray Telescopes

This book summarizes the history, theory, instruments, and current results in the field of particle astrophysics with cosmic gamma rays, from the experimentalists perspective. This book is meant to be a practical guide for students beginning gamma-ray astrophysics research, covering topics not taught in traditional physics classes!

Gamma-ray astrophysics combines the exciting fields of Particle Physics and Astronomy. We get to study particle interactions in space! Using the Universe as our laboratory, we are able to study fundamental physics in extreme environments unavailable in labs on Earth.

This book summarizes the history, theory, instruments, and current results in the field of particle astrophysics with cosmic gamma rays. We frame things from the experimentalists perspective. This book is meant to be a practical guide for students just beginning gamma-ray astrophysics research. It covers topics they dont teach you in y