Development of an advanced Compton telescope for MeV-range gamma-ray astronomy [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11586


An advanced Compton telescope appears to be the best instrument concept for the next generation gamma-ray space observatory in the MeV range. A first prototype of advanced Compton telescope is being developed to match the constraints of a nano satellite mission, with the scientific objective of measuring gamma-ray burst prompt emission polarization. Our instrumental developments for this project are focusing on the position-sensitive calorimeter module, made of a monolithic inorganic CeBr$_3$ scintillator read by a pixelated photodetector. 3D position reconstruction is obtained by deep-learning algorithms that have been optimized down to an uncertainty of 2 mm for each spatial direction.

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A. Laviron, V. Gourlaouen, C. Hamadache, et. al.
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Comments: Conference proceedings of the Journ\’ees de Rencontre des Jeunes Chercheurs 2019, 24-30 November 2019, Logonna-Daoulas, FRANCE (5 pages, 7 figures)