A CsI(Tl) hodoscopic calorimeter for the GLAST mission

Author

Johnson, W.N. ; Grove, J.E. ; Phlips, B.F. ; Norris, J.P. ; Moiseev, A.A.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

9-15 Nov 1997

Firstpage

27

Abstract

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a NASA mission concept under development by an international team for a possible new mission start in the year 2001. The instrument operates as an e⁺e^- pair conversion telescope and supporting calorimeter imaging gamma rays in the 10 MeV to 300 GeV energy range. The baseline design consists of a modular array of e⁺e^$pair trackers formed from multiple planes of silicon strip detectors interleaved with converter foils of Pb. A matching array of calorimeters of CsI(Tl) are below the trackers. The authors present the requirements and simulations of the performance of this imaging calorimeter

Keywords

caesium compounds; cosmic ray apparatus; gamma-ray astronomy; gamma-ray detection; solid scintillation detectors; thallium; 10 MeV to 300 GeV; CsI(Tl) hodoscopic calorimeter; CsI:Tl; GLAST mission; Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope; baseline design; converter foils; e⁺e^- pair conversion telescope; imaging calorimeter; silicon strip detectors; Detectors; Educational institutions; Instruments; NASA; Optical imaging; Poles and towers; Sensor arrays; Silicon; Space missions; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1997. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4258-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1997.672494

Filename

672494