Enhanced performance of an electron tracking Compton gamma-ray telescope

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Feb 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004newa....9..127a&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 127-135.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Gamma Rays: Observations, Telescopes, Techniques: Miscellaneous, Instrumentation: Detectors

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TIGRE, the UCR Compton gamma-ray telescope, is designed to make use of the Compton recoil electron track to improve the flux sensitivity in the medium gamma-ray energy range (0.4-100 MeV). TIGRE uses multilayers of silicon strip detectors to track Compton scattered electrons, and CsI detectors to measure the scattered photon energy and direction. In this work, using Monte-Carlo simulation, we show the improvement that can be obtained when the electron tracking feature is added to a conventional Compton telescope. In simulating a Crab-like source in a balloon-background environment, the flux sensitivity for TIGRE is enhanced by a factor of 2.5 and the source location accuracy by a factor 3 over a non-tracking design.

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