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The Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is the first realization of a liquid xenon time projection chamber for Compton imaging of MeV gamma-ray sources in astrophysics. By measuring the energy deposit and the three spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Aprile , A. Curioni , K. L. Giboni , M. Kobayashi , U. G. Oberlack , S. Zhang

Differential cross sections for Compton scattering from the proton have been measured at scattering angles of $55^\circ$, $90^\circ$, and $125^\circ$ in the laboratory frame using quasimonoenergetic linearly (circularly) polarized photon…

The Mega electron volt (MeV) gamma-ray observation is a promising diagnostic tool for observing the universe. However, the sensitivity of MeV gamma-ray telescopes is limited due to peculiar backgrounds, restricting the application of MeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tomonori Ikeda , Atsushi Takada , Taito Takemura , Kei Yoshikawa , Yuta nakamura , Ken Onozaka , Mitsuru Abe , Toru Tanimori

Geant4 simulations play a crucial role in the analysis and interpretation of experiments providing low energy precision tests of the Standard Model. This paper focuses on the accuracy of the description of the electron processes in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-23 G. Soti , F. Wauters , M. Breitenfeldt , P. Finlay , I. S. Kraev , A. Knecht , T. Porobic , D. Zákoucký , N. Severijns

Properties of response functions of room temperature gamma-radiation detectors based on wide band-gap semiconductors are researched using Monte-Carlo method. It is shown that approximate formulas which connect detector sensitivity with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-07-24 Alexandr A. Zakharchenko

We demonstrate the importance and utility of Monte Carlo simulation of single-photon detectors. Devising an optimal simulation is strongly influenced by the particular application because of the complexity of modern, avalanche-diode-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Mario Stipčević , Daniel J. Gauthier

Given the unprecedented effective area, the new ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) focusing technology, the dynamic and variable L2 environment, where no X-ray mission has flown up to date, a dedicated Geant4 simulation campaign is needed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Simone Lotti , Claudio Macculi , Teresa Mineo , Luigi Piro , Debora Bruno , Massimo Cappi , Mauro Dadina

The development of multi-layer optics which allow to focus photons up to 100 keV and more promises an enormous jump in sensitivity in the hard X-ray energy band. This technology is already planned to be exploited by future missions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fabio Muleri , Riccardo Campana

A Monte Carlo framework, MaGe, has been developed based on the Geant4 simulation toolkit. Its purpose is to simulate physics processes in low-energy and low-background radiation detectors, specifically for the Majorana and Gerda $^{76}$Ge…

We present a technique for efficiently synthesizing images of atmospheric clouds using a combination of Monte Carlo integration and neural networks. The intricacies of Lorenz-Mie scattering and the high albedo of cloud-forming aerosols make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Simon Kallweit , Thomas Müller , Brian McWilliams , Markus Gross , Jan Novák

The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne Compton telescope designed for the study of astrophysical sources in the soft gamma-ray regime (200 keV--20 MeV). NCT's ten high-purity germanium crossed-strip detectors measure the…

The Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon born experiment sensitive to \g -rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The main detector is a time projection chamber filled with high purity liquid xenon (LXeTPC), in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 U. G. Oberlack , E. Aprile , A. Curioni , V. Egorov , K. L. Giboni

A CubeSat with a prototype scintillating detector with a sensitive volume of GAGG crystal is being developed with a possible launch date of 2025. Its purpose is to characterize the background signals that mimic the neutrino interaction that…

This article presents a physics-informed deep learning method for the quantitative estimation of the spatial coordinates of gamma interactions within a monolithic scintillator, with a focus on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. A…

In previous publications, we have presented an alternative approach to determine essential detector properties like the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), the Noise Power Spectrum (NPS) and the Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE) based on a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Karl Stierstorfer , Martin Hupfer

A high-brilliance ($\sim10^{24}$~photon.s$^{-1}$.mm$^{-2}$.mrd$^{-2}$/0.1\%) gamma-ray source experiment is currently being planned at Fermilab ($E_\gamma\simeq 1.1$~MeV)~[1]. The source implements a high-repetition-rate inverse Compton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Mihalcea , A. Murokh , P. Piot , J. Ruan

We study the spectra of photospheric emission from highly relativistic gamma-ray burst outflows using a Monte Carlo (MC) code. We consider the Comptonization of photons with a fast cooled synchrotron spectrum in a relativistic jet with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Mukul Bhattacharya , Wenbin Lu , Rodolfo Santana , Pawan Kumar

GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, is an array of highly-segmented HPGe detectors designed to track {\gamma}-rays emitted in beam-physics experiments. Its high detection efficiency and state-of-the-art position resolution make it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 Robert Crabbs , I-Yang Lee , Kai Vetter

Purpose: To compare the accuracy with which different hadronic inelastic physics models across ten Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit versions can predict positron-emitting fragments produced along the beam path during carbon and oxygen…

We investigated the effect of inverse Compton scattering in mildly relativistic static and moving plasmas with low optical depth using Monte Carlo simulations, and calculated the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the cosmic background radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Molnar , M. Birkinshaw