Basic performance of unitized compton scattering type polarimeter

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1527-1532

  Tomita, H ^a   Sano, S ^a   Sakurai, H ^a   Noma, M ^a   Gunji, S ^a   Takase, E ^a,b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOSPHORS; PLASTICS; RADIATION COUNTERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

COMPTON SCATTERING POLARIMETERS; CRAB NEBULA; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HARD X RAYS; MODULATION FACTOR; PHOSWICH SCINTILLATORS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 0030165460     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507097     Document Type: Article

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