First results about on-ground calibration of the silicon tracker for the AGILE satellite

The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged γ -ray beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The goal of the calibration was the measure of the Point Spread Function (PSF) as a function of the photon energy and incident angle and t...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2011-02, Vol.630 (1), p.251-257
Main Authors: Cattaneo, P.W., Argan, A., Boffelli, F., Bulgarelli, A., Buonomo, B., Chen, A.W., D’Ammando, F., Froysland, T., Fuschino, F., Galli, M., Gianotti, F., Giuliani, A., Longo, F., Marisaldi, M., Mazzitelli, G., Pellizzoni, A., Prest, M., Pucella, G., Quintieri, L., Rappoldi, A., Tavani, M., Trifoglio, M., Trois, A., Valente, P., Vallazza, E., Vercellone, S., Zambra, A., Barbiellini, G., Caraveo, P., Cocco, V., Costa, E., De Paris, G., Del Monte, E., Di Cocco, G., Donnarumma, I., Evangelista, Y., Feroci, M., Ferrari, A., Fiorini, M., Labanti, C., Lapshov, I., Lazzarotto, F., Lipari, P., Mastropietro, M., Mereghetti, S., Morelli, E., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Pacciani, L., Perotti, F., Piano, G., Picozza, P., Pilia, M., Porrovecchio, G., Rapisarda, M., Rubini, A., Sabatini, S., Soffitta, P., Striani, E., Vittorini, V., Zanello, D., Colafrancesco, S., Giommi, P., Pittori, C., Santolamazza, P., Verrecchia, F., Salotti, L.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Accelerators
Artificial satellites
Beams (radiation)
Calibration
Computer simulation
Gamma rays: observations
Instrumentation: detectors
Monte Carlo methods
Photons
Point spread functions
Silicon
Telescopes
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Summary:The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged γ -ray beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The goal of the calibration was the measure of the Point Spread Function (PSF) as a function of the photon energy and incident angle and the validation of the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of the silicon tracker operation. The calibration setup is described and some preliminary results are presented.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.078