TIGRE Gamma-Ray Balloon Experiment

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006head....9.1817z&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #18.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.384

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The prototype TIGRE Tracking and Imaging Gamma-Ray Experiment has been development for the past decade. Its first balloon flight is anticipated in fall, 2006. TIGRE is a Compton telescope for 0.5-10 MeV gamma rays and a pair telescope for 10-100 MeV gammas. It uses multiple layers of thin silicon strip detectors as both the Compton and pair converter and the charged particle tracker. The event coincidence requirement is completed with arrays of CsI(Tl)-photodiode detectors surrounding the converter/tracker and large Na(Tl)-PMT detectors below. The purpose of this flight is to demonstrate the background suppression capabilities of the TIGRE instrument with Compton recoil electron tracking and the improved angular resolution for pairs with silicon as the converter material. Very preliminary results will be presented.

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