Design and performance of the soft gamma-ray detector for the NeXT mission

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2749-2757

  Tajima, H ^a   Kamae, T ^a   Madejski, G ^a   Mitani, T ^b,c   Nakazawa, K ^b   Tanaka, T ^b,c   Takahashi, T ^b,c   Watanabe, S ^b,c   Fukazawa, Y ^d   Ikagawa, T ^e   Kataoka, J ^e   Kokubun, M ^c   Makishima, K ^c   Terada, Y ^f   Nomachi, M ^g   Tashiro, M ^h  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f RIKEN   (Japan)

^g OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium telluride (CdTe); Compton camera; Gamma ray astronomy detectors; Polarimetry; Silicon radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAMMA RAYS; POLARIZATION; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS; SI STRIP DETECTORS; SOFT GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS (SGD);

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33144458024     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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