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   * Located in South America at a latitude between 10 and 30 degrees south.
   * At an altitude of 4.4 km or higher.
-  * Covering an energy range from 100s of GeV to 100s of TeV.
+  * Covering an energy range from 100s of GeV up to the PeV scale.
   * Based primarily on water Cherenkov detector units.
   * With a high fill-factor core detector with area considerably larger than HAWC and significantly better sensitivity, and a low density outer array.
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  [[#Outreach Material|Outreach Material ]]
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 ===== News =====
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+==== May 2024: Major Milestone Completed ====
+{{wiki:panorama_congreso_astro_f1.jpg?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting in Mexico City}} \\
+For the R&D phase of SWGO we defined nine milestones. Today, 3rd May 2024, we ticked Milestone 6, having agreed on a design consolidation: greatly reducing the phase space for the final optimisation of the SWGO design. SWGO will be composed of an inner array with a fill-factor of >40% and excellent low energy performance, but also an outer array with lower fill factor but an area of 0.5-2.0 square kilometres, providing a science reach in to the PeV domain. The inner array will be based on dual-layer water Cherenkov detectors with diameter between 3.8 and 5.5 metres. Multiple options are still being explored for the outer array.
+This is a big step for the collaboration, based on a huge simulation and analysis effort as well as detector design development and evaluation of our benchmark science cases.
+Our next Milestone is the selection of the SWGO Site – stay tuned!
+(The picture is from our recent collaboration meeting in Mexico City, where our discussions paved the way for this new Milestone.)
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+==== October 2023: 9th Collaboration Meeting ====
+{{wiki:swgo-cm2023Oct-picture.png?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
+From October 1st to 4th, 2023, the SWGO Collaboration meets in Prague, Czech Republic, for the 9th Collaboration Meeting.
+We engaged in insightful presentations regarding the work done so far and useful discussions of the forthcoming steps, both with the present attendees and individuals connecting from different parts of the world. Thanks to everyone for attending or joining at unconventional times.
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+==== April 2023: 8th Collaboration Meeting ====
+{{wiki:swgo-cm2023April-picture.png?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
+From April 16th-20th, 2023, the SWGO Collaboration meets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 8th Collaboration Meeting. We had wonderful and fruitful presentations and discussions on the work done so far and the next steps still to be taken by the different working groups, Institutions, and collaborators worldwide. Thank you all for making this hybrid experience a reality!
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+==== April 2023: CLAF/MCTI High-Level Seminar ====
+{{:wiki:CLAF2023.png }}
+==="Opportunities for the Latin-American Participation and Cooperation in Astroparticle Physics and the SWGO Project===
+  *20 April 2023, Rio de  Janeiro, Brazil.
+The Latin American Center for Physics ({{https://www.claffisica.org.br/|CLAF}}) was founded in 1962 and last year celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. Among the initiatives to take stock of these six decades of contributions to the promotion and development of physics in the Latin American continent, was the creation of the Astroparticle Physics Unit, to support CLAF in actions targeted specifically towards this field of scientific investigation.
+The seminar intends to facilitate constructive dialogue between policy-makers and key stakeholders from different sectors of government, academia, and industry, among others, to address broader perspectives and opportunities of participation and cooperation in Astro-particle Physics and the future SWGO project.
+Please find more information and the Press Release [[:CLAF2023| here]].
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 ==== Oct 2022: New partner countries ====
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 {{:wiki:countries_swgo_2022_Sep.png |countries involved in SWGO}}
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 ==== Sep 2022: 7th Collaboration Meeting ====
 From Sep. 19 to Sep. 23, 2022, the SWGO Collaboration met online to share and discuss the progress in several ongoing tasks for the observatory to be built. We welcome all the new Collaborators, and thank you all for such a fruitful Meeting!
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 {{wiki:swgo-cm2022Sep-picture.png?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
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 ==== May 2022: Collaboration Meeting ====
 From May 23rd to May 27th, 2022, the SWGO Collaboration met to discuss the progress in several ongoing exciting tasks. The science benchmarks, the detector options, the potential sites for the observatory to be built, and the improvement in analysis and simulations. We will be looking forward to meeting again!
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 ==== In Memory of Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard  (1948 – 2021) ====
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 Please find the obituary [[:obituary_RCS| here]].
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 ==== March 2021: New Vice-Spokespersons for SWGO ====
 The SWGO Collaboration is delighted to announce that the Spokesperson team is now complete! Petra Huentemeyer, from the Michigan Technological University, US, and Ulisses Barres de Almeida, from the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Brazil, have been appointed as Vice-Spokespersons of the collaboration. They will work together with the spokesperson, Jim Hinton, MPIK, Germany, over the next 1-2 years to guide the R&D phase of SWGO.
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 {{wiki:ulisses_cospokesman.jpg?nolink&200|}}
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 ==== November 2020: 3rd Collaboration Meeting ====
 The SWGO members met online for the third collaboration meeting, held on November 4-10, 2020.
 {{ wiki:swgo_collmeeting_nov2020.png?direct&800 |}}
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 ==== May 2020: Remote Collaboration Meeting ====
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 {{:wiki:swgo_all2_may2020.png?350|Attendees of the remote SWGO collaboration meeting}}
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 ==== First Collaboration Meeting ====
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 {{:wiki:swgo_pressimages_padova_meeting_small.jpg|Photo of the attendees of the collaboration meeting in Padova}}
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 ==== Founding of a New Collaboration ====
 On July 1st 2019, 39 research institutions from nine countries signed the agreement for the creation of a new international R&D collaboration for a future wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatory in the southern hemisphere. The aim of the collaboration is to develop, over the next three years, a detailed proposal for the implementation of such an observatory, including site selection and technology choices. The founding countries of the newly created Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) are Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, creating a worldwide community around the project. SWGO unifies different communities that were already involved in R&D in this field. The signature of the agreement comes after a successful meeting of the scientists from the different countries, held in Lisbon in May. [[:press_release_en|Press Release (English)]] {{:wiki:swgo_pressimages_sky_light_small.jpg?nolink&  |Gamma-ray sky image as seen by the (current) HAWC and (future) SWGO observatories (Credit: Richard White, MPIK)}} //Gamma-ray sky image as seen with the (current) HAWC and (future) SWGO observatories (Credit: Richard White, MPIK)//
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 ==== Science Case Published! ====
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