NDLI: The mini-calorimeter for the AGILE satellite

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Author	Labanti, C. Argan, A. Bulgarelli, A. di Cocco, G. Galli, M. Gianotti, F. Marisaldi, M. Mauri, A. Rossi, E. Tavani, M. Traci, A. Trifoglio, M.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: CNR-INAF, Italy (Labanti, C.)
Abstract	AGILE is a small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to observations for astrophysics in the gamma-ray energy range 30 MeV-50 GeV with a simultaneous window in the X-ray band 10 keV-40 keV. AGILE payload is made of a tungsten-silicon tracker, a CsI mini-calorimeter for the high energy band and a silicon based X-ray detector (SuperAgile); an anticoincidence system carries out background rejection. In the gamma-ray's band the satellite will have a field of view of about 1/5 of the sky, with angular resolution of a few arc-minutes and good timing resolution. For the high energy AGILE detection principle is based on the pair production process that arises from the interaction between photons and the tungsten layers above the silicon tracker. The silicon tracker is designed to determine the direction of the incoming radiation, while the mini-calorimeter evaluates the energy of the interacting photons and particles. For the detection of transients and gamma-ray burst events, the mini-calorimeter will also work as a stand-alone gamma-ray detector, with no imaging capabilities, covering the energy range 250 keV-250 MeV. The mini-calorimeter is made of an array of position sensitive CsI(Tl) scintillator bars with photodiode read-out. The characteristics of its detector elements and the front end electronics signal processing allow a moderate position reconstruction of the detected event. In this paper a description of the mini-calorimeter is reported as well as a summary of performances reached with the pre-flight instrument models already built and tested.
Starting Page	355
Ending Page	359
File Size	787996
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780387007
ISSN	10823654
e-ISBN	0780387015
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462212
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-10-16
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Satellites Silicon Event detection Space missions Energy resolution Gamma ray detectors Astrophysics Payloads X-ray detectors Timing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Design and construction of the mini-calorimeter of the agile satellite (810).

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