Status of the GAMMA-400 Project
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-06-03 v1
Abstract
The preliminary design of the new space gamma-ray telescope GAMMA-400 for the energy range 100 MeV - 3 TeV is presented. The angular resolution of the instrument, 1-2{\deg} at E{\gamma} ~100 MeV and ~0.01^{\circ} at E{\gamma} > 100 GeV, its energy resolution ~1% at E{\gamma} > 100 GeV, and the proton rejection factor ~10E6 are optimized to address a broad range of science topics, such as search for signatures of dark matter, studies of Galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources, Galactic and extragalactic diffuse emission, gamma-ray bursts, as well as high-precision measurements of spectra of cosmic-ray electrons, positrons, and nuclei.
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@article{arxiv.1201.2490,
title = {Status of the GAMMA-400 Project},
author = {A. M. Galper and O. Adriani and R. L. Aptekar and I. V. Arkhangelskaja and A. I. Arkhangelskiy and M. Boezio and V. Bonvicini and K. A. Boyarchuk and Yu. V. Gusakov and M. O. Farber and M. I. Fradkin and V. A. Kachanov and V. A. Kaplin and M. D. Kheymits and A. A. Leonov and F. Longo and P. Maestro and P. Marrocchesi and E. P. Mazets and E. Mocchiutti and A. A. Moiseev and N. Mori and I. Moskalenko and P. Yu. Naumov and P. Papini and P. Picozza and V. G. Rodin and M. F. Runtso and R. Sparvoli and P. Spillantini and S. I. Suchkov and M. Tavani and N. P. Topchiev and A. Vacchi and E. Vannuccini and Yu. T. Yurkin and N. Zampa and V. G. Zverev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2490},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, submitted to Advances in Space Research