Status of instrumental background simulations for gamma-ray telescopes with geant4

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2859-2864

  Zoglauer, Andreas ^a   Weidenspointner, Georg ^b,c   Wunderer, Cornelia B ^a   Boggs, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation; Background; Cosima; Geant4; MEGAlib; Simulations; TGRS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION; BACKGROUND; COSIMA; GEANT4; MEGALIB; SIMULATIONS; TGRS;

COSMOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIATION BELTS; TELESCOPES;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 67649233848     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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