Design and development of Gamma-ray Burst Monitor for the CALET Mission
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan)
- 2. ISS Science Project Team, Institute of Space and Astronautional Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (Japan)
- 3. Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Japan)
Description
We propose to provide a gamma-ray burst monitor (GBM) for the CALET mission to monitor gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) together with the CALET Imaging Calorimeter detector. The major purpose is to derive a wide-band energy spectrum of GRBs over an unprecedented 9 decades of energy (from a few keV to a few TeV) in combination with the CALET tower detector. Hence it is desirable to have the CALET-GBM covering an energy range from a few keV to about 20 MeV to avoid a gap in the observational energy bands. The design of GBM is underway to fulfill this requirement. The current detector candidate is BGO, and a LaBr (Ce) scintillator which has a superior energy resolution to that of NaI(Tl). In this paper, design and expected performance of the CALET-GBM is shown
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2943546;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 1000
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 616-619
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- Santa Fe conference on gamma-ray bursts 2007
- Dates
- 5-9 Nov 2007
- Place
- Santa Fe, NM (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40017882
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; COSMIC PHOTONS; DESIGN; ENERGY RESOLUTION; ENERGY SPECTRA; GAMMA ASTRONOMY; GAMMA DETECTION; KEV RANGE; MEV RANGE; NAI DETECTORS; PERFORMANCE; SHOWER COUNTERS; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RESOLUTION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SPECTRA
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics