Low noise double-sided silicon strip detector for multiple-compton gamma-ray telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 875-884

  Tajima, Hiroyasu ^a   Kamae, Tuneyoshi ^a   Uno, Shingo ^b   Nakamoto, Tatsuya ^b   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^b   Mitani, Takefumi ^c   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^c,d   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^c   Okada, Yu ^d   Nomachi, Masaharu ^e  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compton telescope; Gamma ray; Semiconductor detector; Silicon Strip Detector; SSD

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SILICON STRIP DETECTORS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038633543     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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