The Mini-Calorimeter detector for the AGILE mission

Details The Mini-Calorimeter detector for the AGILE mission The Mini-Calorimeter detector for the AGILE mission

Jan 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006nuphs.150...34l&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 150, p. 34-37.

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AGILE is an ASI space mission for high energy astrophysics in the gamma ray energy range 30MeV-50GeV, and in the X-ray band (10keV-40keV). AGILE is composed of three detecting systems: a Tungsten-Silicon Tracker, a Csl Mini-Calorimeter and a Silicon based X-ray detector (Super-Agile), plus an anticoincidence system for background rejection. The satellite will have good imaging performances (with angular resolution of a few arc-minutes in the gamma ray band), good timing resolution and a large field of view (about 1/5 of the sky). AGILE high energy detector is composed of a Silicon Tracker, a Mini-Calorimeter, the Anticoincidence and the Data Handling system The Mini-Calorimeter can also work as a stand-alone gamma ray detector in the energy range 250keV-250MeV, with no imaging capabilities, for the detection of transients and gamma ray burst events and for the evaluation of gamma ray background fluctuations. The Mini-Calorimeter is made of 30 independent elements of 37.5×2.3×1.5 cm stacked in two layers. Each detector scintillator signal is read out via two photodiodes glued on the small surfaces of the bar. The characteristics of the engineering model detectors has been deeply investigated and will be reported.

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