Title of article
Design and construction of the Mini-Calorimeter of the AGILE satellite
Author/Authors
Labanti، نويسنده , , C. and Marisaldi، نويسنده , , M. and Fuschino، نويسنده , , F. San-Galli، نويسنده , , M. and Argan، نويسنده , , A. and Bulgarelli، نويسنده , , A. and Di Cocco، نويسنده , , G. and Gianotti، نويسنده , , F. and Tavani، نويسنده , , M. and Trifoglio، نويسنده , , M.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages
10
From page
470
To page
479
Abstract
AGILE is a small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to gamma-ray and hard-X astrophysics, successfully launched on April 23, 2007. The AGILE Payload is composed of three instruments: a gamma-ray imager based on a tungsten-silicon tracker (ST), for observations in the gamma ray energy range 30 MeV–50 GeV, a Silicon based X-ray detector, SuperAGILE (SA), for imaging in the range 18–60 keV and a CsI(Tl) Mini-Calorimeter (MCAL) that detects gamma rays or charged particles energy loss in the range 300 keV–100 MeV. MCAL is composed of 30 CsI(Tl) scintillator bars with photodiode readout at both ends, arranged in two orthogonal layers. MCAL can work both as a slave of the ST and as an independent gamma-ray detector for transients and gamma-ray bursts detection. In this paper a detailed description of MCAL is presented together with its performance.
Keywords
Gamma-ray detectors , Scintillation detectors , High energy astrophysics
Journal title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Serial Year
2009
Journal title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Record number
2210608
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