Anti-Coincidence Detector For GLAST
- SLAC
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is now being designed by a number of collaborating institutions. It will study the cosmic gamma radiation from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with high precision and sensitivity, greatly expanding on the important EGRET results. One of the key systems of the instrument, the Anticoincidence Detector (ACD), is designed to reject the majority of charged particles, which are the background for any gamma-ray experiment. The ACD of EGRET has suffered from the self-veto effect when the products of the high energy photon interactions in the instrument's calorimeter cause a veto signal in the anticoincidence detector (backsplash effect), resulting in the degradation of the efficiency for high energy (> 5 GeV) gamma rays. To avoid this effect, the ACD for GLAST is divided into many scintillating tiles with wave-shifting fiber readout. The design of this detector along with the beam test and simulation results are given in this paper.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515;
- OSTI ID:
- 808687
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-9597
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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