A Study of the LXeGRIT Detection Efficiency for MeV Gamma-Rays during the 2000 Balloon Flight Campaign
Instrumentation and Detectors
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
LXeGRIT - Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope - is the first prototype of a Compton telescope for \MeV \g-ray astrophysics based on a LXe time projection chamber. One of the most relevant figures of merit for a Compton telescope is the detection efficiency for \g-rays, which depends on diverse contributions such as detector geometry and passive materials, trigger efficiency, dead time, etc. A detailed study of the efficiency of the LXeGRIT instrument, based both on laboratory measurements and Monte Carlo simulations, is presented in this paper.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0702078,
title = {A Study of the LXeGRIT Detection Efficiency for MeV Gamma-Rays during the 2000 Balloon Flight Campaign},
author = {A. Curioni and E. Aprile and T. Doke and K. L. Giboni and M. Kobayashi and U. G. Oberlack},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0702078},
year = {2008}
}
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20 pages, 15 figures; submitted to NIMA