Status of the Davies-Cotton and Schwarzschild-Couder Medium-Sized Telescopes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array is an observatory dedicated to very high energy gamma rays with unprecedented sensitivity between 20 GeV and 300 TeV to be installed on two sites: Canary Island La Palma and Paranal Chile. Three telescope sizes will be used to cover the entire energy range. Two different telescope designs have been proposed to cover the intermediate energy range from 150 GeV to 5 TeV. One of the proposals is based on the traditional single mirror Davies-Cotton design, with two different camera concepts with different detection and processing schemes are under test. Another innovative design based on a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder optics has also been developed and is under test in Arizona, USA. In this talk, the different concepts and the status of the prototypes will be presented.