LAT and Solar Neutrons: Preliminary estimates

GLAST LAT will detect several solar flares in gamma rays. Motivated by the CGRO results on neutrons emitted during a solar flare, we try to estimate the possibility of the LAT to detect solar neutrons. Besides gamma rays, neutrons could indeed interact in the LAT instrument and mimic a gamma‐ray signal. An estimate of the contamination of gamma‐ray detection in solar flares by the neutron component is given.