High-Energy Calibration of a BGO Detector of the GLAST Burst Monitor [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2011.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 2 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Summary:

The understanding of the instrumental response of the GLAST Burst Monitor BGO detectors at energies above the energy range which is accessible by common laboratory radiation sources (< 4.43 MeV), is important, especially for the later cross-calibration with the LAT response in the overlap region between ≈20 MeV to 30 MeV. In November 2006 the high-energy calibration of the GBM-BGO spare detector was performed at the small Van-de-Graaff accelerator at SLAC. High-energy gamma-rays from excited ⁸Be* (14.6 MeV and 17.5 MeV) and ¹⁶O* (6.1 MeV) were generated through (p, γ)-reactions by irradiating a LiF-target. For the calibration at lower energies radioactive sources were used. The results, including spectra, the energy/channel-relation and the dependence of energy resolution are presented.

Report Numbers:

E 1.99:slac-pub-14796
slac-pub-14796

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Particle Accelerators

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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/30/2011.
"slac-pub-14796"
"arXiv:0704.2178"
AIP Conf.Proc.921:576-577,2007
Prepared for 1st GLAST Symposium, Stanford, Palo Alto, 5-8 Feb 2007.
Steinle, Helmut; Briggs, Michael S.; von Kienlin, Andreas; Fishman, Gerald J.; Godfrey, Gary L.

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AC02-76SF00515

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