Development of a Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5501, Issue , 2004, Pages 229-240

  Tanaka, Takaaki ^a,b   Mitani, Takefumi ^a,b   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Oonuki, Kousuke ^a,b   Sato, Goro ^a,b   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a,b   Tamura, Ken'ichi ^a,b   Tajima, Hiroyasu ^c   Nakamura, Hidehito ^d   Nomachi, Masaharu ^d   Nakamoto, Tatsuya ^e   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^e  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CdTe; Compton telescope; Gamma ray; Semicondictor detector; Silicon Strip Detector

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICON; STRIP METAL;

COMPTON TELESCOPE; POSITION RESOLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTOR; SILICON STRIP DETECTOR;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 19944391308     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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