%0 Journal Article
%T Progress in Monte Carlo design and optimization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
%A K. Bernl£¿hr
%A A. Barnacka
%A Y. Becherini
%A O. Blanch Bigas
%A A. Bouvier
%A E. Carmona
%A P. Colin
%A G. Decerprit
%A F. Di Pierro
%A F. Dubois
%A C. Farnier
%A S. Funk
%A G. Hermann
%A J. A. Hinton
%A T. B. Humensky
%A T. Jogler
%A B. Kh¨¦lifi
%A T. Kihm
%A N. Komin
%A J. -P. Lenain
%A R. L¨®pez-Coto
%A G. Maier
%A D. Mazin
%A M. C. Medina
%A A. Moralejo
%A R. Moderski
%A S. J. Nolan
%A S. Ohm
%A E. de O£¿a Wilhelmi
%A R. D. Parsons
%A M. Paz Arribas
%A G. Pedaletti
%A S. Pita
%A H. Prokoph
%A C. B. Rulten
%A U. Schwanke
%A M. Shayduk
%A V. Stamatescu
%A P. Vallania
%A S. Vorobiov
%A R. Wischnewski
%A M. Wood
%A T. Yoshikoshi
%A A. Zech
%A for the CTA Consortium
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%X The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range. Both large-scale Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of CTA super-sets (including many different possible CTA layouts as sub-sets) and smaller-scale simulations dedicated to individual aspects were carried out and are on-going. We summarize results of the prior round of large-scale simulations, show where the design has now evolved beyond the conservative assumptions of the prior round and present first results from the on-going new round of MC simulations.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2773v1