Publication Date:
2011-08-16
Description:
The sensitivity of a directional gamma ray detector, which relies on blocking a source to determine its direction and energy spectrum, is calculated and compared to the more conventional well shaped shielded detectors. It is shown that such an anticollimator detection system provides a basis for measuring the celestial diffuse gamma ray background, gamma ray sources and bursts with good energy, angular, and time resolution, and that additionally the system is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as conventional detectors when compared on a per unit mass basis.
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INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Type:
NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Goddard Contrib. to the Los Alamos Conf. on Transient Cosmic Gamma and X-ray Sources; 28 p
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