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Detecting the first electron pairs with nuclear emulsion allows a precise measurement of the direction of incident gamma-rays as well as their polarization. With recent innovations in emulsion scanning, emulsion analyzing capability is…

Driven by life-science applications, mega-electron-volt Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (MeV-STEM) has been proposed to image thick biological samples. The high penetration of inelastic scattering signals of MeV electrons could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-08 X. Yang , L. Wang , J. Maxson , A. Bartnik , M. Kaemingk , W. Wan , L. Cultrera , L. Wu , V. Smaluk , T. Shaftan , S. McSweeney , C. Jing , R. Kostin , Y. Zhu

The success of the SWIFT/BAT and INTEGRAL missions has definitely opened a new window for follow-up and deep study of the transient gamma-ray sky. This now appears as the access key to important progresses in the area of cosmological…

Precision beam polarization measurements based on Compton polarimeters are essential for the physics program of future high-energy colliders. In order to prepare for these and to extend the scope of physics measurements of the BESIII…

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a selected Small Explorer (SMEX) mission launching in 2027. It consists of a large field-of-view Compton telescope that will probe with increased sensitivity the under-explored MeV gamma-ray sky…

We describe a concept for a NASA SMEX Mission in which Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, developed at CERN, are adapted for use in X-ray astronomy. These detectors can be used to obtain moderately large detector area and…

Current large-aperture cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes have nearly maximized the number of detectors that can be illuminated while maintaining diffraction-limited image quality. The polarization-sensitive detector arrays being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Michael D. Niemack

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

KOMPASS is a polarized triple-axis cold neutron spectrometer recently installed at the FRM II neutron source. The instrument is designed to operate exclusively with polarized neutrons and is specialized in longitudinal polarization analysis…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 D. Gorkov , M. Müller , G. Waldherr , A. Grünwald , J. Stein , S. Giemsa , A. C. Komarek , P. Böni , M. Braden

A novel Compton Scanner setup has been built, commissioned and operated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich to collect pulses from bulk events in high-purity germanium detectors for pulse shape studies. In this fully automated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 I. Abt , C. Gooch , F. Hagemann , L. Hauertmann , D. Hervas Aguilar , X. Liu , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond

Gamma-ray observations give us a direct view into the most extreme environments of the universe. They help us to study astronomical particle accelerators as supernovae remnants, pulsars, active galaxies or gamma-ray bursts and help us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Rolf Buehler

Recently, there appears lots of papers on the possibility of light Dark Matter (DM) in MeV and sub-GeV scale. Until now, only INTEGRAL and COMPTEL provided experimental data of 511keV of galactic center, and two spectra of Galactic Diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Toru Tanimori

Building on the success of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will make a major step in the study of such subjects as blazars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Kamae , T. Ohsugi , D. J. Thompson , K. Watanabe

Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-15 Kristi Engel , Jordan Goodman , Petra Huentemeyer , Carolyn Kierans , Tiffany R. Lewis , Michela Negro , Marcos Santander , David A. Williams , Alice Allen , Tsuguo Aramaki , Rafael Alves Batista , Mathieu Benoit , Peter Bloser , Jennifer Bohon , Aleksey E. Bolotnikov , Isabella Brewer , Michael S. Briggs , Chad Brisbois , J. Michael Burgess , Eric Burns , Regina Caputo , Gabriella A. Carini , S. Bradley Cenko , Eric Charles , Stefano Ciprini , Valerio D'Elia , Tansu Daylan , James Distel , Axel Donath , Wade Duvall , Henrike Fleischhack , Corinne Fletcher , Wen Fe Fong , Dario Gasparrini , Marco Giardino , Adam Goldstein , Sean Griffin , J. Eric Grove , Rachel Hamburg , J. Patrick Harding , Jeremy Hare , Boyan Hristov , C. Michelle Hui , Tess Jaffe , Pete Jenke , Oleg Kargaltsev , Christopher M. Karwin , Matthew Kerr , Dongsung Kim , Daniel Kocevski , John Krizmanic , Ranjan Laha , Niccolo Di Lalla , Jason Legere , Cristina Leto , Richard Leys , Fabrizio Lucarelli , Israel Martinez-Castellanos , Alessandro Maselli , M. Nicola Mazziotta , Mark McConnell , Julie McEnery , Jessica Metcalfe , Manuel Meyer , Alexander A. Moiseev , Reshmi Mukherjee , Michela Negro , Keiichi Ogasawara , Nicola Omodei , Ivan Peric , Jeremy S. Perkins , Matteo Perri , Carlotta Pittori , Gianluca Polenta , Daniel Poulson , Robert Preece , Giacomo Principe , Judith L. Racusin , Oliver Roberts , Nicholas L. Rodd , Peter Shawhan , Thomas Shutt , Clio Sleator , Alan Smale , John Smedley , Jacob R. Smith , Jay Tasson , Peter Teuben , John Tomsick , Peter Veres , Francesco Verrecchia , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge , Joshua Wood , Richard S. Woolf , Hui Yang , Bing Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Andreas Zoglauer

We present a concept for an Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT) based on the use of pixelized gas micro-well detectors to form a three-dimensional electron track imager. A micro-well detector consists of an array of individual micro-patterned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. F. Bloser , S. D. Hunter , J. M. Ryan , M. L. McConnell , R. S. Miller , T. N. Jackson , B. Bai , S. Jung

The primary scientific goal of the GRIPS mission is to revolutionize our understanding of the early universe using gamma-ray bursts. We propose a new generation gamma-ray observatory capable of unprecedented spectroscopy over a wide range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Greiner

The all-sky surveys in gamma-rays by the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the first time allows detailed studies of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sreekumar , F. W. Stecker , S. C. Kappadath

Millimetre-wave observations represent an important tool for Cosmology studies. The Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) technique has been proposed to map in three dimensions the specific intensity due to line (e.g. [CII], CO) emission, for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Usasi Chowdhury , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Martino Calvo , Johannes Goupy , Alessandro Monfardini

The future of ground based gamma ray astronomy lies in large arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) with better capabilities: lower energy threshold, higher sensitivity, better resolution and background rejection.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-31 S. Sajjad , A. Falvard , G. Vasileiadis