The LXeGRIT compton telescope prototype: Current status and future prospects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1196-1208

  Aprile, Elena ^a   Curioni, A ^a   Giboni, K L ^a   Kobayashi, M ^a   Oberlack, U G ^b   Chupp, E L ^c   Dunphy, P P ^c   Doke, T ^e   Kikuchi, J ^e   Ventura, S ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Balloon missions; Gamma rays; High energy astrophysics; Imaging; Instrumentation; Telescope

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; PHOSPHORS;

COMPTON INTERACTIONS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037619082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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