Physics – Medical Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008apsp.conf..847b&link_type=abstract
ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE AND SPACE PHYSICS, DETECTORS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS. Proceedings of the 10th Conference. Held
Physics
Medical Physics
Scientific paper
The calibration strategy of the GLAST Large Area Telescope combines analysis of cosmic ray data with accelerator particle beams measurements. To validate the LAT simulation and to study its performance, a massive campaign of particle beam tests was performed, in parallel with the LAT integration and test, on the LAT Calibration Unit (CU). This is a detector built with two complete flight spare modules, a third spare calorimeter module, five anticoincidence tiles located around the telescope and flight-like readout electronics.
The CU was exposed to different kinds of beams, representing the whole spectrum of the signal that will be detected by the LAT, using the CERN and the GSI accelerator facilities. Beams of photons (0-2.5GeV), electrons (0.5-300GeV), hadrons (pions and protons, 6GeV-100GeV) and ions (C, Xe, 1.5GeV/n) were shot through the CU to measure the physical processes taking place in the detector and eventually fine-tune their description in the LAT Monte Carlo simulation. This talk describes the motivations and goals of the test runs, the many different experimental setups used to select the required particles and trigger the CU, the measured performance of the CU and the results of the LAT Monte Carlo validation.
Brigida Monica
Caliandro A.
Favuzzi C.
Fusco P.
Gargano Fabio
No associations
LandOfFree
Particle Beam Tests for the Glast-Lat Calibration does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Particle Beam Tests for the Glast-Lat Calibration, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Particle Beam Tests for the Glast-Lat Calibration will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1430248