We present the LAUE project devoted to develop an advanced technology for building a high focal length Laue lens for soft gamma--ray astronomy (80-600 keV). The final goal is to develop a focusing optics that can improve the current sensitivity in the above energy band by 2 orders of magnitude.
@article{arxiv.1110.5434,
title = {The LAUE project for broadband gamma-ray focusing lenses},
author = {E. Virgilli and F. Frontera and V. Valsan and V. Liccardo and E. Caroli and J. B. Stephen and F. Cassese and L. Recanatesi and M. Pecora and S. Mottini and P. Attiná and B. Negri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5434},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures, presented at the SPIE conference on "Optics for EUV, X-ray, and Gamma-ray Astronomy". To be published in the Proceedings of SPIE, vol.8147, 2011