Development of a high resolution scintillating fiber gamma ray telescope

Author

Atac, M. ; Chaney, R. ; Chrisman, D. ; Cline, D. ; Fenyves, E. ; Park, J. ; Antich, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

38

Issue

2

fYear

1991

fDate

4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

568

Lastpage

573

Abstract

The authors report on further development and testing of a Compton telescope composed of scintillating fibers and position-sensitive photomultipliers. Initial tests of the telescope showed a better than 1-mm (RMS) position resolution and a 17.5-mrad (RMS) angular resolution for 1.2-MeV photons from a collimated ⁶⁰Co gamma source. This type of device can be used for constructing large-area telescopes for gamma-ray astronomy. It was shown that this gamma ray telescope worked successfully

Keywords

astronomical telescopes; gamma-ray astronomy; gamma-ray detection and measurement; photomultipliers; position sensitive particle detectors; scintillation counters; ⁶⁰Co; Compton telescope; angular resolution; collimated; gamma source; gamma-ray astronomy; high resolution scintillating fiber gamma ray telescope; large-area telescopes; position resolution; position-sensitive photomultipliers; Astronomy; Cryogenics; Electromagnetic scattering; Energy resolution; Optical fiber testing; Particle scattering; Photomultipliers; Physics; Plastics; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.289358

Filename

289358