2014年
Effectiveness and Performance of a Full Ray-Tracing Sub-MeV Compton Imager
2014 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (NSS/MIC)
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431112
- 出版者・発行元
- IEEE
As the next generation of sub-MeV/MeV gamma-ray explorer for astronomy, we have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) which consists of combination of a gaseous ray-tracing chamber as a Compton-scattering target and position sensitive scintillator arrays as a scattered gamma-ray absorber. Our detector has full ray-tracing capability for Compton scattering reconstruction, the capability has two significant benefits for Compton gamma-ray imager, one is efficient background rejection without reduction of effective area for gamma rays, and another one is clear imaging. We had launched a balloon-borne experiment of a small size ETCC in 2006, and succeeded for observation of the spectra of diffuse cosmic and atmospheric gamma rays. However, obtaining the proof of imaging capability by observation of a bright celestial object such as the Crab nebula is strongly required to propose an all-sky survey satellite. Aiming to the proof of clear imaging, we are planning a next balloon flight and we have constructed a 30 cm-cube size ETCC which has about 100 times higher sensitivity than the previous flight detector. This sensitivity enables us to detect the Crab nebula with 5 sigma level for several hours observation. We report imaging demonstrations at the ground and performance tests of gamma-ray detection efficiency, energy resolution, and imaging resolution in range of 150 keV to 1 MeV gamma-ray band.
- リンク情報
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- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431112
- Web of Science
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- URL
- https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84965002982&origin=inward
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431112
- SCOPUS ID : 84965002982
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000392917500368