Development of a Monte Carlo simulator for the Astro-E2 Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 902-909

  Terada, Yukikatsu ^a   Watanabe, Shin ^b   Ohno, Masanori ^c   Suzuki, Masaya ^d   Itoh, Takeshi ^e   Takahashi, Isao ^e   Sato, Goro ^b   Murashima, Mio ^e   Kawano, Naomi ^c   Uchiyama, Yasunobu ^b   Kubo, Shin ^b   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^b   Tashiro, Makoto ^d   Kokubun, Motohide ^e   Makishima, Kazuo ^e   Kamae, Tsuneyoshi ^f   Murakami, Toshio ^g   Nomachi, Masaharu ^h   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^c   Yamaoka, Kazutaka ⁱ   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^b   Yonetoku, Daisuke ^g   more..

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astronomical satellites; Gamma ray spectroscopy detectors; Monte Carlo; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORBITS; RADIOISOTOPES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

MONTE CARLO SIMULATORS; PRE-FLIGHT; X-RAY DETECTORS; X-RAY SATELLITES;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 27644542827     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.852681     Document Type: Article

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