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Development of miniSGD, a proof-of-concept balloon experiment for a narrow field of view Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton telescope

Keigo Okuma, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shin׳ichiro Takeda, Mii Ando, Yuki Omiya, Manari Oguchi, Atsuya TANAKA, Yuna Tsuji, Shin Watanabe, Tadayuki Takahashi, Masahiko Kobayashi, Naoki Ishida, Takahiro Minami, M. Onishi, Toshihiko Arai

2023

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Summary

MeV gamma-ray band is the boundary between the thermal and non-thermal particle worlds and are very important for understanding high-energy phenomena in the universe. The SGD onboard the ASTRO-H satellite was a narrow field of view Compton telescope that combines a Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton camera and a deep active shield, and has demonstrated high performance in orbit. We are proposing a balloon experiment based on this concept. As the first step. we are developing a proof-of-concept mission, miniSGD. miniSGD consists of a semiconductor Compton camera with two 0.5 mm thick Si double-sided strip detectors (DSSD) and four 2 mm thick CdTe double-sided strip detectors (CdTe-DSD), and nine 20-30 mm thick BGO scintillators surrounding them. Although the effective area is small because it is

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.22323/1.444.0899
Catalogue ID
SNmoic26fg-4n107q
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