Enhanced performance of an electron tracking Compton gamma-ray telescope

New Astronomy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-135

  Akyuz A ^a   Bhattacharya, D ^b   O'Neill, T J ^b   Samimi, J ^c   Zych, A ^b  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: observations; Instrumentation: detectors; Techniques: miscellaneous; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTILAYERS; PHOTONS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

PHOTON ENERGY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0242334527     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2003.07.004     Document Type: Article

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