Development of the Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope (AdEPT) for medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hunter, Stanley D ^a   Bloser, Peter F ^b   Dion, Michael P ^a   McConnell, Mark L ^b   De Nolfo, Georgia A ^a   Son, Seunghee ^a   Ryan, James M ^b   Stecker, Floyd W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray; Imaging; Medium energy; Micro well readout; Pair production; Telescope; Time projection chamber

Indexed keywords

IMAGING; MEDIUM-ENERGY; MICRO-WELL READOUT; PAIR PRODUCTION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS;

DESIGN; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957857739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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