Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Sep 1994
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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2305, p. 2-12, Gamma-Ray Detector Physics and Applications, Elena Aprile; Ed.
Statistics
Applications
Scientific paper
The development of large area xenon drift chambers as imaging systems for the advanced Gamma-Ray Astronomy Telescope Experiment (AGATE), sensitive in the energy range 20 MeV - 100 GeV, is presented here. AGATE is visualized as the successor to the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, and will add to the wide range of important results currently being obtained by EGRET. Experiments were carried out with a laboratory prototype consisting of a stack of sixteen 1/2m X 1/2m active area drift chambers using both xenon and argon gas mixtures. The spatial resolution of the drift chamber stack was measured with a multi-wire readout plane using atmospheric muons traversing the active volume. A spatial resolution of about 0.23 mm was measured with drift chambers using xenon- methane gas mixtures. The experiments with the argon-isobutane gas mixtures yielded a spatial resolution of about 0.14 mm.
Bertsch David L.
Cuddapah Rajani
Dingus Brenda Lynn
Esposito Joseph A.
Fichtel Carl E.
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