Design and Tests of the Hard X-ray Polarimeter X-Calibur
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https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2014.01.0293Abstract
X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information bout high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts. We designed, built and tested ahard X-ray polarimeter, X-Calibur, to be used in the focal plane of the InFOCuS grazing incidence hard X-ray telescope.X-Calibur combines a low-Z Compton scatterer with a CZT detector assembly to measure the polarization of 20−60 keV X-rays making use of the fact that polarized photons Compton scatter preferentially perpendicular to the electric field orientation; in principal, a similar space-borne experiment could be operated in the 5−100 keV regime. X-Calibur achieves a high detection efficiency of order unity.Downloads
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2014-12-05
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Beilicke, M., Cowsik, R., Dowkontt, P., Guo, Q., Kislat, F., Barthelmy, S., Okajima, T., Mitchell, J. W., Schnittman, J., Zeiger, B., De Geronimo, G., Baring, M. G., Bodaghee, A., Miyazawa, T., Finkelstein, K. D., & Krawczynski, H. (2014). Design and Tests of the Hard X-ray Polarimeter X-Calibur. Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 1(1), 293–297. https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2014.01.0293
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