Simulations of a Si-based advanced Compton telescope

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 985-989

  Novikova, Elena I ^a,b   Wulf, Eric A ^a,b   Phlips, Bernard F ^a,b   Kurfess, James D ^a,b   Zoglauer, Andreas ^c   Weidenspointner, Georg ^d   Kippen, R Marc ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CERS CNRS   (France)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED COMPTON TELESCOPE (ACT); COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES; GAMMA RAY TELESCOPES; SILICON COMPTON IMAGER;

COSMIC RAYS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33846575091     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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