Beam test of a prototype phoswich detector assembly for the PoGOLite astronomical soft gamma-ray polarimeter

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 570, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-71

  Kanai, Y ^a   Ueno, M ^a   Kataoka, J ^a   Arimoto, M ^a   Kawai, N ^a   Yamamoto, K ^b   Mizuno, T ^b   Fukazawa, Y ^b   Kiss, M ^c   Ylinen, T ^c   Marini Bettolo, C ^c   Carlson, P ^c   Klamra, W ^c   Pearce, M ^c   Chen, P ^d   Craig, B ^d   Kamae, T ^d   Madejski, G ^d   Ng, J S T ^d   Rogers, R ^d   Tajima, H ^d   Thurston, T S ^d   Saito, Y ^e   Takahashi, T ^e   Gunji, S ^f   Bjornsson, C I ^g   Larsson, S ^g   Ryde, F ^g   Bogaert, G ^h   Kishimoto, S ⁱ   more..

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon experiment; Hard X ray; Polarization; Soft gamma ray

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

BALLOON EXPERIMENTS; HARD X-RAYS; SOFT GAMMA-RAYS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33845460678     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.09.109     Document Type: Article

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