Abstract
The discovery of Cosmic Rays (CRs) dates back more than one century ago, however their origin remains unclear. There is rather convincing evidence that the bulk of Galactic CRs, up to ~3 PeV, and possibly beyond, is accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). However this paradigm still needs a conclusive proof. While the SNR expands, charged particles from the circumstellar/interstellar medium are accelerated at the SNR shock wave and radiate from radio to very high energies (≻100 GeV). Particles acceleration and broad band radiation mechanism were studied and modelled during this PhD. γ-ray astronomy instruments enable to detect radiation from particles accelerated at the SNR shock wave. In particular the pair creation telescope Fermi-LAT and the array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., enable together to detect Gamma-ray photons in the ~30 MeV-30 TeV energy range. As a member of the H.E.S.S. collaboration, I analysed and interpreted observational data from several Galactic SNRs. These studies led to the discovery of one of the faintest sources ever detected whose Gamma-ray emission is associated with the interaction of the SNR G349.7+02 with an adjacent molecular cloud. Upper limits on the integrated flux of many SNRs were extracted in order to constrain models of particle acceleration. In particular, the SNR Puppis A shows an unexpected spectral behavior difficult to explain with current models. A fifth bigger telescope was added mid 2012 to the H.E.S.S. array of four small telescopes to lower the energy threshold and to improve the sensitivity of the array. In this context I actively participated to the development, integration end data analysis of the calibration hardware of the camera of this fifth telescope.