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We present results of a study of charged particle track and vertex reconstruction with a beam telescope made of four layers of 50 micron-thin CMOS monolithic pixel sensors using the 120 GeV protons at the FNAL Meson Test Beam Facility. We…

The CZTI (Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager) onboard AstroSat is a high energy coded mask imager and spectrometer in the energy range of 20 - 100 keV. Above 100 keV, the dominance of Compton scattering cross-section in CZTI results in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Abhay Kumar , Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Santosh V. Vadawale , A. R. Rao , Mithun N. P. S. , Varun Bhalerao , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We propose a future mission concept, the MeV Astrophysical Spectroscopic Surveyor (MASS), which is a large area Compton telescope using 3D position sensitive cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors optimized for emission line detection. The…

To build upon the goals of the upcoming INTEGRAL mission, the next generation soft gamma-ray (0.2-20 MeV) observatory will require improved sensitivity to nuclear line emission while maintaining high spectral resolution. We present the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven E. Boggs , Pierre Jean

A number of techniques are being developed to solve the monstrous sensitivity gap that exists between the energy ranges of good sensitivity of the Compton and of the pair telescopes and to extend polarimetry to the MeV gamma-ray world. I…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Denis Bernard

Using 2.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 0.5 cm Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) substrates from the company Acrorad, we have fabricated detectors with planar cathode contacts and 8x8 anode pixels. We investigate the I-V characteristics and energy resolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Garson , I. V. Jung , J. Perkins , H. Krawczynski

KEDR detector has the tagging system (TS) to study the gamma-gamma processes. To determine the two-photon invariant mass, the energies of the scattered at small angles electrons and positrons are measured by the magnetic spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-28 V. V. Kaminskiy , N. Yu. Muchnoi , V. N. Zhilich

Hard X-ray photons with energies in the range of hundreds of keV typically undergo Compton scattering when they are incident on a detector. In this process, an incident photon deposits a fraction of its energy at the point of incidence and…

An important source of background in direct searches for low-mass dark matter particles are the energy deposits by small-angle scattering of environmental $\gamma$ rays. We report detailed measurements of low-energy spectra from Compton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-30 K. Ramanathan , A. Kavner , A. E. Chavarria , P. Privitera , D. Amidei , T. -L. Chou , A. Matalon , R. Thomas , J. Estrada , J. Tiffenberg , J. Molina

COMPTEL was the Compton telescope on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory CGRO launched in April 1991 and which was re-entered in June 2000. COMPTEL covered the energy range 0.75 to 30 MeV, and performed a full-sky survey which is still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Andrew Strong , Werner Collmar

To explore the sub-MeV/MeV gamma-ray window for astronomy, we have developed the Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC), and carried out the first performance test at room condition using several gamma-ray sources in the sub-MeV energy…

The development prospects have been considered of a scintillator-photodiode type detector with improved energy resolution attaining several per cent ($R=1-2%$). The main contributions to the scintielectron detector energy resolution have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov

The uncertainty of the energy measurement of the electron beam on circular electron positron collider (CEPC) must be smaller than 10$\mathrm{MeV}$ to make sure the accurate measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson. In order to simplify…

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

The energy range from a few hundred keV to a few MeV includes important probes such as nuclear gamma-rays and the 511 keV annihilation line. However, compared to X-rays and GeV/TeV gamma-rays, this range suffers from lower sensitivity by…

Gamma-ray polarization offers a unique probes into the geometry of the gamma-ray emission process in celestial objects. The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) onboard the X-ray observatory Hitomi is a Si/CdTe Compton camera and is expected to be…

In the present work, we study the atomic Compton Scattering which could have great impacts on dark matter direct detection experiments. We give a quantitative analysis of the Compton scattering energy spectrum for Si and Ge atomic systems.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Chen-Kai Qiao , Hsin-Chang Chi , Shin-Ted Lin , Peng Gu , Shu-Kui Liu , Chang-Jian Tang

We developed a 2-mm-thick CdTe double-sided strip detector (CdTe-DSD) with a 250 um strip pitch, which has high spatial resolution with a uniform large imaging area of 10 cm$^2$ and high energy resolution with high detection efficiency in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Takahiro Minami , Miho Katsuragawa , Shunsaku Nagasawa , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Yutaka Tsuzuki , Tadayuki Takahashi

A Compton gamma imager has been developed for use in consequence management operations and in security investigations. The imager uses solid inorganic scintillator, known for robust performance in field survey conditions. The design was…

The NeXT mission has been proposed to study high-energy non-thermal phenomena in the universe. The high-energy response of the super mirror will enable us to perform the first sensitive imaging observations up to 80 keV. The focal plane…