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This paper explores the potential of AstroPix, a project to develop Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) pixels for the next generation of space-based high-energy astrophysics experiments. Multimessenger astrophysics is a rapidly…

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Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) mission is a student project designed to use multiple gamma-ray detectors carried by nanosatellites (CubeSats), forming a full-time all-sky gamma-ray detection network that monitors the transient…

Increasing interest in energetic particle effects on weather and climate has motivated development of a miniature scintillator-based detector intended for deployment on meteorological radiosondes or unmanned airborne vehicles. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-17 Karen L Aplin , Aaron A Briggs , R Giles Harrison , Graeme J Marlton

This paper discusses the latest progress in the development of GRAPE (Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment), a hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter. The purpose of GRAPE is to measure the polarization of hard X-rays in the 50-300 keV energy range. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 J. S. Legere , P. Bloser , J. R. Macri , M. L. McConnell , T. Narita , J. M. Ryan

Over thirteen times more gamma-ray pulsars have now been studied with the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi satellite than the ten seen with the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in the nineteen-nineties. The large sample is diverse,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Xian Hou , David A. Smith , Thierry Reposeur , Romain Rousseau

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

Cosmic-ray muons, owing to their high penetration power and abundance, have been widely employed as a natural probe in experimental particle physics. We developed a meter-scale cosmic-ray muon telescope, consisting of two parallel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Yan Niu , Anqing Wang , Xiangxiang Ren , Dong Liu , Meng Wang

The POLAR-2 mission consists of 3 instruments designed with the combined aim of producing a deeper understanding of Gamma-Ray Bursts. To achieve this, POLAR-2 relies on polarisation measurements and, for the first time will provide these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Merlin Kole , Nicolas de Angelis , Jiang He , Hongbang Liu , Jianchao Sun , Fei Xie , Jimmy Zaid

The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) project is the planned Chinese space telescope for detecting the X and gamma-ray counterpart. It consists of two micro-satellites in low earth orbit with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 P. Lv , S. L. Xiong , X. L. Sun , J. G. Lv , Y. G. Li

The development of CubeSat and more frequent launch chances of sounding rockets are a total game changer to the space program, and it allows us to build space instruments to be more achievable and affordable. Therefore, it gives us a good…

The 511 keV gamma-ray emission from the galactic center region may fully or partially originate from the annihilation of positrons from dark matter particles with electrons from the interstellar medium. Alternatively, the positrons could be…

We report on an hybrid in-beam PET and prompt-gamma Compton imaging system aimed at quasi real-time ion-range verification in proton-therapy treatments. Proof-of-concept experiments were carried out at the radiobiology beam line of the CNA…

A new apparatus, NA60+, is proposed for measuring muon pairs in the center-of-mass region from 5 to 17 GeV at CERN SPS in various collisional systems from Pb+Pb and down to $p$+Be. The physics scope of the new detector will cover topics…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-06 Alexander Milov

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

Modern unmanned technologies make it possible to implement them in almost all industries, including radiation monitoring. Already in 2011, at the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, the first drones were demonstrated to measure the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Mammadli , Z. Ahmadov , K. Isayev , N. Sadigova

The imaging Compton telescope COMPTEL aboard NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory has opened the MeV gamma-ray band as a new window to astronomy. COMPTEL provided the first complete all-sky survey in the energy range 0.75 to 30 MeV. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Schoenfelder , the COMPTEL Collaboration

A multi-messenger, space-based cosmic ray detector for gamma rays and charged particles poses several design challenges due to the different instrumental requirements for the two kind of particles. Gamma-ray detection requires layers of…

We apply an inverse Compton $e^\pm$ pair cascade model for $\gamma$-ray production in massive binary system LSI +61$^{\rm o}$ 303 assuming that electrons are accelerated already inside the inner part of the jet launched by the compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Bednarek

We are developing a rugged and person-transportable Compton gamma imager for use in security investigations of radioactive materials, and for radiological incident remediation. The imager is composed of layers of scintillator with light…

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