Plastic scintillator block as photon beam monitor for EGRET calibration

Journal Article · Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/23.289363· OSTI ID:5112760

Lin, Y C; Hofstadter, R; Hughes, E B; Nolan, P L; Walker, A H ^[1]; Mattox, J R ^[2]

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1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). W.W. Hansen Labs. of Physics
2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD (United States). Goddard Space Flight Center

The EGRET (Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope) detector is one of four experiments on board the Gamma Ray Observatory, scheduled for launch with the NASA's Space Shuttle in the spring of 1991. The EGRET detector has been calibrated at SLAC and, to a lesser degree, at the MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center. To monitor the photon beams for the calibration, a plastic scintillator block, 5cm {times} 5cm in cross section and 15 cm in length, viewed by a single PMT, was used for the entire beam energy range from 15 MeV to 10 GeV. The design, operation, and method of analysis of the beam intensity is presented in the paper.

• OSTI ID: 5112760
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 38:2; ISSN 0018-9499; ISSN IETNA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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