First Results From GLAST-LAT Integrated Towers Cosmic Ray Data Taking And Monte Carlo Comparison

Conference · Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2007

OSTI ID:899575

Brigida, M; Caliandro, A; Favuzzi, C; Fusco, P; Gargano, F; Giordano, F; Giglietto, N; Loparco, F; Marangelli, B; Mazziotta, M N; Mirizzi, N; Raino, S; Spinelli, P

GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a gamma ray telescope instrumented with silicon-strip detector planes and sheets of converter, followed by a calorimeter (CAL) and surrounded by an anticoincidence system (ACD). This instrument is sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range between 20 MeV and 300 GeV. At present, the first towers have been integrated and pre-launch data taking with cosmic ray muons is being performed. The results from the data analysis carried out during LAT integration will be discussed and a comparison with the predictions from the Monte Carlo simulation will be shown.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 899575
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-12358; TRN: US200709%%177
• Resource Relation: Conference: Prepared for 9th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Villa Erba, Como, Italy, 17-21 Oct 2005
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTICOINCIDENCE
CALORIMETERS
DATA ANALYSIS
ENERGY RANGE
MUONS
PHYSICS
SIMULATION
TELESCOPES
Astrophysics
ASTRO