Experimental polarimetric study of a hard X-ray energy telescope prototype

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 1198-1203

  Da Silva, R M Curado ^a,b   Ayoub, M ^a   Caroli, E ^c   Donati, A ^c   Hage Ali, M ^a   Schiavone, F ^c   Siffert, P ^a   Stephen, J B ^c   Ventura, G ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Polarimetry; Semiconductor detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGE SENSORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; POLARIMETERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAYS;

BALLOON-BORNE EXPERIMENTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0041424869     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.815161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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