Published July 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Development of an advanced Compton camera with gaseous TPC and scintillator

  • 1. Cosmic-Ray group, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)

Description

A prototype of the MeV gamma-ray imaging camera based on the full reconstruction of the Compton process has been developed. This camera consists of a micro-TPC that is a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and scintillation cameras. With the information of the recoil electrons and the scattered gamma-rays, this camera detects the energy and incident direction of each incident gamma-ray. We developed a prototype of the MeV gamma-ray camera with a micro-TPC and a NaI(Tl) scintillator, and succeeded in reconstructing the gamma-rays from 0.3 to 1.3MeV. Measured angular resolutions of ARM (Angular Resolution Measure) and SPD (Scatter Plane Deviation) for 356keV gamma-rays were 18 deg. and 35 deg., respectively

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2005.03.050;
arXiv
arXiv:astro-ph/0412047v1;
PII
S0168-9002(05)00662-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
546
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 258-262
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
6. international workshop on radiation imaging detectors
Dates
25-29 Jul 2004
Place
Glasgow (United Kingdom)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.