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We propose a new imaging gamma-ray detector in the MeV region. By measuring the directions and energies of not only a scattered gamma ray but also a recoil electron, the direction of an incident gamma ray would be essentially reconstructed event by event. Furthermore, one of two measured (zenith and azimuth) angles of a recoil electron gives us an additional redundancy which enables us to reject the background events by kinematic constraints. In order to measure the track of a recoil electron, the micro Time Projection Chamber($mu$-TPC) has been developed, which can measure the successive positions of the track of charged particles in a few hundred micron meter pitch. The $mu$-TPC consists of the new type of a gas proportional chamber: micro PIxel gas Chamber ($mu$-PIC) which is one of wireless gas chambers and expected to be robust and stable. Using this $mu$-TPC and the Anger camera for the detection of a scattered gamma ray, we have obtained the first gamma-ray image by the full reconstruction of the direction of gamma rays event by event.
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The Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is the first realization of a liquid xenon time projection chamber for Compton imaging of MeV gamma-ray sources in astrophysics. By measuring the energy deposit and the three spatial coordinates of individual gamma-ray scattering points, the location of the source in the sky is inferred with Compton kinematics reconstruction. The angular resolution is determined by the detectors energy and spatial resolutions, as well as by the separation in space between the first and second scattering. The imaging response of LXeGRIT was established with gamma-rays from radioactive sources, during calibration and integration at the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, prior to the 2000 balloon flight mission. In this paper we describe in detail the various steps involved in imaging sources with LXeGRIT and present experimental results on angular resolution and other parameters which characterize its performance as a Compton telescope.
Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position sensitive gaseous detector, or the $mu$-PIC, with the detection area of 10$times$10 cm${}^{2}$ and 65536 anode electrodes of 400 $mu$m pitch. We achieved the gas gain of over 10000 without any other multipliers. With the pipe-line readout system specially developed for the $mu$-PIC, we detected X-rays at the rate as high as 7.7 Mcps. We attached a drift cage with an 8 cm drift length to the $mu$-PIC and developed a micro-TPC. We measured the basic performances of the micro-TPC and took three-dimensional tracks of electrons. We also developed a prototype of the MeV gamma-ray imaging detector which is a hybrid of the micro-TPC and NaI(Tl) scintillators and confirmed its concept by reconstructing the obtained data.
Current {gamma}-ray telescopes based on photon
Current $gamma$-ray telescopes suffer from a gap in sensitivity in the energy range between 100keV and 100MeV, and no polarisation measurement has ever been done on cosmic sources above 1MeV. Past and present e$^+$e$^-$ pair telescopes are limited at lower energies by the multiple scattering of electrons in passive tungsten converter plates. This results in low angular resolution, and, consequently, a drop in sensitivity to point sources below 1GeV. The polarisation information, which is carried by the azimuthal angle of the conversion plane, is lost for the same reasons. HARPO (Hermetic ARgon POlarimeter) is an R&D program to characterise the operation of a gaseous detector (a Time Projection Chamber or TPC) as a high angular-resolution and sensitivity telescope and polarimeter for $gamma$ rays from cosmic sources. It represents a first step towards a future space instrument in the MeV-GeV range. We built and characterised a 30cm cubic demonstrator [SPIE 91441M], and put it in a polarised $gamma$-ray beam at the NewSUBARU accelerator in Japan. Data were taken at photon energies from 1.74MeV to 74MeV, and with different polarisation configurations. We describe the experimental setup in beam. We then describe the software we developed to reconstruct the photon conversion events, with special focus on low energies. We also describe the thorough simulation of the detector used to compare results. Finally we will present the performance of the detector as extracted from this analysis and preliminary measurements of the polarisation asymmetry. This beam-test qualification of a gas TPC prototype in a $gamma$-ray beam could open the way to high-performance $gamma$-ray astronomy and polarimetry in the MeV-GeV energy range in the near future.
The measurement of the ionization produced by particles in a medium presents a great interest in several fields from metrology to particule physics and cosmology. The ionization quenching factor is defined as the fraction of energy released by ionisation by a recoil in a medium compared with its kinetic energy. At low energy, in the range of a few keV, the ionization falls rapidly and systematic measurement are needed. We have developped an experimental setup devoted to the measurement of low energy (keV) ionization quenching factor for the MIMAC project. The ionization produced in the gas has been measured with a Micromegas detector filled with Helium gas mixture.
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