Conveners
Detectors Techniques for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Regina Caputo (UMD/NASA/GSFC)
- Luciano Gottardi (SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
Detectors Techniques for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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Serendipitously discovered by the BATSE mission in the nineties, Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) represent the most intense and energetic natural emission of gamma rays form our planet. TGFs consist of sub-millisecond bursts of gamma rays (energy up to one hundred MeV) generated during powerful thunderstorms by lightenings (average ignition altitude of about 10 km) and are in general...
Only a few years after the first direct detections by LIGO and Virgo, the gravitational-wave (GW) field is at a turning point, with a rapidly increasing number of confirmed signals – all from compact binary mergers so far. This dataset offers a wealth of information and allows scientists to study the populations of compact objects and the rates at which they merge, permitting tests of general...
We present the latest results on the development of the Dark-PMT, a novel light Dark Matter (DM) detector. The detector is designed to be sensitive to DM particles with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV. The detection scheme is based on DM-electron scattering inside a target made of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are made of wrapped sheets of graphene, which is a...
The High Energy cosmic Radiation Detector (HERD) is one of the leading projects among future space-borne instruments. It will be installed onboard the Chinese Space Station (CSS) thanks to a collaborative effort among Chinese and European institutions.
HERD core is a 3D calorimeter (~55 X0, 3lI?), forming an octagonal prism. Five calorimeter sides will be surrounded by 3 subdetectors, in the...
The advent of the system on a chip that integrates a CPU unit and multiple input-output analogs and digital peripherals and the simultaneous improvement of Silicon photomultiplier detectors with a low dark count has allowed our group of INFN Rome1 to build in 2014 the first all-in-one scintillation detector in literature called ArduSiPM.
The original idea is to use the minimum possible COTS...
The Crystal Eye detector is proposed as a space-based X and gamma ray all-sky monitor to be active from 10keV up to 30MeV.
In its full scale configuration, it consists in a 32cm diameter hemisphere, made by 112 pixels, with an overall weight lower than 50kg, wide field of view (FOV, about 6sr), full sky coverage and very large effective area (about 6 times higher than Fermi-GBM at 1MeV) in...
On December 9th 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was launched on a Falcon IX from Cape Canaveral into its equatorial, low-Earth orbit, where it began scientific observations on January 11th 2022. Equipped with three identical telescopes---each providing simultaneous polarimetric, spatial, spectroscopic and temporal information---IXPE will measure, for the first time in the...
