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The GammaTPC is an MeV-scale single-phase liquid argon time-projection-chamber gamma-ray telescope concept with a novel dual-scale pixel-based charge-readout system. It promises to enable a significant improvement in sensitivity to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 M. Buuck , A. Mishra , E. Charles , N. Di Lalla , O. Hitchcock , M. E. Monzani , N. Omodei , T. Shutt

Novel ultra-compact, electrically switchable, time-structured/pulsed, ~1-14 MeV-level neutron and photon generators have application embedded into large detector systems, especially calorimeters, for energy and operational calibration. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-05 G. Jennings , C. Sanzeni , D. R. Winn

The recent advancement of high-intensity lasers has made all-optical Compton scattering become a promising way to produce ultra-short brilliant $\gamma$-rays in an ultra-compact system. However, so far achieved Compton $\gamma$-ray sources…

The ability to formulate maps of minimum detectable activities (MDAs) that describe the sensitivity of an ad hoc measurement that used one or more freely moving radiation detector systems would be significantly beneficial for the conduct…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-17 Mark S. Bandstra , Daniel Hellfeld , Jaewon Lee , Brian J. Quiter , Marco Salathe , Jayson R. Vavrek , Tenzing H. Y. Joshi

Advances in scintillation crystal and Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) technologies have enabled the development of compact, lightweight, and low-power radiation detectors that are suitable for integration with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Lysander Miller , Airlie Chapman , James Kennedy , Richard Hebden , Jeremy M. C. Brown

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

An advanced Compton telescope appears to be the best instrument concept for the next generation gamma-ray space observatory in the MeV range. A first prototype of advanced Compton telescope is being developed to match the constraints of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Adrien Laviron , Valentin Gourlaouen , Clarisse Hamadache , Corentin Hiver , Jürgen Kiener , Jean Peyré , Vincent Tatischeff

The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) is one of the instrument payloads onboard ASTRO-H, and will cover a wide energy band (60--600 keV) at a background level 10 times better than instruments currently in orbit. The SGD achieves low background…

The Pathfinder of the Type-A satellites in the Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission is equipped with Micro-Pore Optics (MPOs) and four single-pixel Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs). Due to the lack of position…

Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat has been a prolific Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) monitor. While the 2-pixel Compton scattered events (100 - 300 keV) are used to extract sensitive spectroscopic information, the inclusion of…

All-optical Compton sources are innovative, compact devices to produce high energy femtosecond X-rays. Here we present results on a single-pulse scheme that uses a plasma mirror to reflect the drive beam of a laser plasma accelerator and to…

We have developed an Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC), which provides a well-defined Point Spread Function (PSF) by reconstructing a direction of each gamma as a point and realizes simultaneous measurement of brightness and spectrum…

The atmospheric response for MeV gamma rays (~ 0.1 - 10 MeV) can be characterized in terms of two observed components. The first component is due to photons that reach the detector without scattering. The second component is due to photons…

For long time non-pure beta emitters are avoided from PET imaging due to extra dose and increase in background from Compton scattering. But advent of high-resolution Compton camera system opens up new domain of imaging. Various non-pure…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Satyajit Ghosh , Pragya Das

Existing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) detection methods mainly rely on the target's appearance features in RGB images, whose diversity makes it difficult to achieve generalized MAV detection. We notice that different types of MAVs share the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yin Zhang , Zian Ning , Xiaoyu Zhang , Shiliang Guo , Peidong Liu , Shiyu Zhao

Recent HESS observations show that microquasars in high-mass systems are sources of VHE gamma-rays. A leptonic jet model for microquasar gamma-ray emission is developed. Using the head-on approximation for the Compton cross section and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher

Microquasars are X-ray binary systems with non-thermal radio emission originated in jet-like features. They are attractive sites for gamma-ray production, since relativistic particles in the jet should traverse locally strong both photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo E. Romero

The hybrid pixel detector Timepix3 allows the measurement of the time and energy deposition of an event simultaneously in each 55 $\mu$m pixel, which makes Timepix3 a promising approach for a compact Compton camera. However, the angular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Jiaxing Wen , Xutao Zheng , Huaizhong Gao , Ming Zeng , Yuge Zhang , Minghai Yu , Yuchi Wu , Jirong Cang , Ge Ma , Zongqing Zhao

A future mission in medium-energy gamma-ray astrophysics would allow for many scientific advancements, e.g. a possible explanation for the excess positron emission from the Galactic Center, a better understanding of nucleosynthesis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Michelle Galloway , Andreas Zoglauer , Steven E. Boggs , Mark Amman

A compact, portable and large field-of-view gamma camera to identify, locate and quantify gamma-ray emitting radioisotopes in real-time has been developed. The device delivers spectroscopic and imaging capabilities, which allow one to use…