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Gamma Large Area Silicon Telescope (GLAST) [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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16 pages : digital, PDF file
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The recent discoveries and excitement generated by EGRET have prompted an investigation into modern technologies ultimately leading to the next generation space-based gamma ray telescope. The goal is to design a detector that will increase the data acquisition rate by almost two orders of magnitude beyond EGRET, while at the same time improving on the angular resolution, the energy measurement of reconstructed gamma rays, and the triggering capability of the instrument. The GLAST proposal is based on the assertion that silicon particle detectors are the technology of choice for space application: no consumables, no gas volume, robust (versus fragile), long lived, and self triggering. The GLAST detector is roughly modeled after EGRET in that a tracking module precedes a calorimeter. The GLAST Tracker has planes of thin radiatior interspersed with planes of crossed-strip (x,y) 300-μm-pitch silicon detectors to measure the coordinates of converted electron-positron pairs. The gap between the layers (∼5 cm) provides a lever arm in track fitting resulting in an angular resolution of 0.1° at high energy (the low energy angular resolution at 100 MeV would be about 2°, limited by multiple scattering). A possible GLAST calorimeter is made of a mosaic of Csl crystals of order 10 r.l. in depth, with silicon photodiodes readout. The increased depth of the GLAST calorimeter over EGRET`s extends the energy range to about 300 GeV.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:slac-pub--6390
E 1.99: conf-9307166--1
conf-9307166--1
slac-pub--6390
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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/01/1993.
"slac-pub--6390"
" conf-9307166--1"
"DE94006439"
2. towards a major atmospheric Cerenkov detector workshop,Calgary (Canada),17-18 Jul 1993.
Godfrey, G.L.
Funding Information
AC03-76SF00515
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