TeVPA 2018

Aug 27 – 31, 2018
LVH, Luisenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Status of the AMEGO Subsystem Development

Aug 28, 2018, 3:45 PM
1h
LVH, Luisenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin

LVH, Luisenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin

<a href="http://www.langenbeck-virchow-haus.de/" target="_blank"><b>LANGENBECK VIRCHOW HAUS</b></a> Luisenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin
Board: GR26
Poster (A0 portrait) Gamma-rays

Description

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a probe-class mission concept designed to operate at energies from $\sim$ 200 keV to > 10 GeV. Both Compton scattering and pair-production events must be considered in the AMEGO design since the interaction cross section has a crossover at $\sim$ 15 MeV. AMEGO is made of four major subsystems: a plastic anticoincidence detector for rejecting cosmic-ray events, a silicon tracker for measuring the energies of Compton scattered electrons and pair-production products, a CZT calorimeter for measuring the energy and location of Compton scattered photons, and a CsI calorimeter for measuring the energy of the pair-production products at high energies. The prototype subsystems are under development at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Naval Research Laboratory; in this contribution we provide details on the development of the different subsystems in preparation for beam tests and a balloon flight.

Primary author

Dr Sean Griffin (UMCP / NASA GSFC)

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