Performance study of Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton telescopes with Monte Carlo simulation

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

Volumn 579, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 878-885

  Odaka, Hirokazu ^a,b   Takeda, Shin'ichiro ^a,b   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Ishikawa, Shin nosuke ^a,b   Ushio, Masayoshi ^a,b   Tanaka, Takaaki ^a,b   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a,b   Tajima, Hiroyasu ^c   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^d  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compton telescope; Gamma ray detector; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

ASTROPHYSICS SPACE MISSIONS; COMPTON CAMERAS; SOFT GAMMA-RAY DETECTOR (SGD);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 34547809985     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.293     Document Type: Article

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