Polarimetric Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

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Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011head...12.3624b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #12, #36.24

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray telescope. Its compact design uses cross-strip germanium detectors, allowing for wide-field imaging with excellent efficiency from 0.2-10 MeV. Additionally, the Compton imaging principle employed by NCT provides polarimetric sensitivity from 0.2-2 MeV. We conducted laboratory observations of a partially polarized beam produced by scattering gamma-rays off of a CsI scintillator slab. We present results of these measurements and compare them with detailed Monte Carlo simulations in order to assess NCT's capabilities as a Compton polarimeter.

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