The GLAST large area telescope

被引：4

作者：

Latronico, L ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Pisa, I-56010 San Piero A Grado, Pisa, Italy

来源：

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | 2003年 / 511卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

gamma-ray; satellite; pair-conversion; silicon; strip; tracker;

D O I：

10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01753-4

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the. main instrument of the GLAST satellite, designed for the study of the gammaray sky between 20 MeV and 1 TeV, scheduled for launch by NASA in 2006. The LAT will revolutionize the field addressing many of the unresolved questions in high-energy astrophysics with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. Key to efficient and precise photon detection and measurement is the gamma-->e(+)e(-) vertex reconstruction from the LAT tracker. Technologies that make the LAT such an expectional detector, mainly due to the use of particle physics instrumentation, are discussed in this paper. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：68 / 71

页数：4