Gamma-ray polarimetry with Compton telescope

被引：18

作者：

Tajima, H ^{[1
]}

Madejski, G ^{[1
]}

Mitani, T ^{[1
]}

Tanaka, T ^{[1
]}

Nakamura, H ^{[1
]}

Nakazawa, K ^{[1
]}

Takahashi, T ^{[1
]}

Fukazawa, Y ^{[1
]}

Kamae, T ^{[1
]}

Kokubun, M ^{[1
]}

Marlow, D ^{[1
]}

Nomachi, M ^{[1
]}

Silva, EDE ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA

来源：

UV AND GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE SYSTEMS, PTS 1 AND 2 | 2004年 / 5488卷

关键词：

gamma-ray; Compton telescope; polarimeter; silicon strip detector; CdTe; semiconductor detector;

D O I：

10.1117/12.552487

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

Compton telescope is a promising technology to achieve very high sensitivity in the soft gamma-ray band (0.1-10 MeV) by utilizing Compton kinematics. Compton kinematics also enables polarization measurement which will open new windows to study gamma-ray production mechanism in the universe. CdTe and Si semiconductor technologies are key technologies to realize the Compton telescope in which their high energy resolution is crucial for high angular resolution and back-round rejection capability. We have assembled a prototype module using a double-sided silicon strip detector and CdTe pixel detectors. In this paper, we present expected polarization performance of a proposed mission (NeXT/SGD). We also report results from polarization measurements using polarized synchrotron light and validation of EGS4 MC simulation.

引用

页码：561 / 571

页数：11

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