TY - GEN
T1 - Performance improvement of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera by a new track reconstruction method
AU - Komura, S.
AU - Tanimori, T.
AU - Kubo, H.
AU - Takada, A.
AU - Parker, J. D.
AU - Mizumoto, T.
AU - Mizumura, Y.
AU - Sonoda, S.
AU - Tomono, D.
AU - Sawano, T.
AU - Nakamura, K.
AU - Matsuoka, Y.
AU - Nakamura, S.
AU - Oda, M.
AU - Kabuki, S.
AU - Kishimoto, Y.
AU - Kurosawa, S.
AU - Iwaki, S.
AU - Sato, Y.
AU - Tanaka, M.
AU - Ikeno, M.
AU - Uchida, T.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - For MeV gamma-ray Astronomy, we have developed an Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) as a next-generation MeV gamma-ray telescope. An ETCC consists of a three-dimensional electron tracker using a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC) and position-sensitive gamma-ray absorbers using pixel scintillator arrays (PSAs). We carried out the balloon borne experiment in 2006 with a small size ETCC and observed successfully the fluxes of the diffuse cosmic and atmospheric gamma rays. As the next flight, we plan to observe bright celestial sources like Crab nebula and have constructed a large size ETCC. To achieve this, an effective area must be larger than 0.5cm 2 for obtaining a 3 sigma level signal for 3 hours observation. To obtain the required sensitivity, we have improved the electron track reconstruction method by updating the track encoding logic and developing a simple track analysis for the new logic. We performed ground-based experiments in the new method using a test model ETCC and measured the detection efficiency, which is found to be 10 times higher than that in the previous method and consistent with the simulation. In addition, the measured angular resolution is improved remarkably. From these results, we expect that a large size ETCC will have more than 3 times better sensitivity than the original design performance.
AB - For MeV gamma-ray Astronomy, we have developed an Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) as a next-generation MeV gamma-ray telescope. An ETCC consists of a three-dimensional electron tracker using a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC) and position-sensitive gamma-ray absorbers using pixel scintillator arrays (PSAs). We carried out the balloon borne experiment in 2006 with a small size ETCC and observed successfully the fluxes of the diffuse cosmic and atmospheric gamma rays. As the next flight, we plan to observe bright celestial sources like Crab nebula and have constructed a large size ETCC. To achieve this, an effective area must be larger than 0.5cm 2 for obtaining a 3 sigma level signal for 3 hours observation. To obtain the required sensitivity, we have improved the electron track reconstruction method by updating the track encoding logic and developing a simple track analysis for the new logic. We performed ground-based experiments in the new method using a test model ETCC and measured the detection efficiency, which is found to be 10 times higher than that in the previous method and consistent with the simulation. In addition, the measured angular resolution is improved remarkably. From these results, we expect that a large size ETCC will have more than 3 times better sensitivity than the original design performance.
KW - Compton camera
KW - electron track
KW - gamma-ray
KW - gaseous TPC
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829698
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829698
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904181978
SN - 9781479905348
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
BT - 2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2013
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2013 60th IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2013
Y2 - 27 October 2013 through 2 November 2013
ER -