1. The design of diamond Compton telescope.
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Paredes, Josep M., Reimer, Olaf, Torres, Diego F., Hibino, Kinya, Kashiwagi, Toshisuke, Okuno, Shoji, Yajima, Kaori, Uchihori, Yukio, Kitamura, Hisashi, Takashima, Takeshi, Yokota, Mamoru, and Yoshida, Kenji
- Abstract
We have developed radiation detectors using the new synthetic diamonds. The diamond detector has an advantage for observations of "low/medium" energy gamma rays as a Compton telescope. The primary advantage of the diamond detector can reduce the photoelectric effect in the low energy range, which is background noise for tracking of the Compton recoil electron. A concept of the Diamond Compton Telescope (DCT) consists of position sensitive layers of diamond-striped detector and calorimeter layer of CdTe detector. The key part of the DCT is diamond-striped detectors with a higher positional resolution and a wider energy range from 10 keV to 10 MeV. However, the diamond-striped detector is under development. We describe the performance of prototype diamond detector and the design of a possible DCT evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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