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DOI	10.2172/893045
Title	Technical Aspects of a Germanium Calorimeter for Space-BorneGamma-Ray Detection
Creator/Author	Crawford, H. ; Smoot, G.
Publication Date	1988 Jun 01
OSTI Identifier	OSTI ID: 893045
Report Number(s)	LBL--25514
DOE Contract Number	DE-AC02-05CH11231
DOI	10.2172/893045
Other Number(s)	TRN: US200625%%75
Resource Type	Technical Report
Research Org	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Org	USDOE Director, Office of Science
Subject	71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; ACCURACY; ANNIHILATION; CALORIMETERS; DETECTION; ENERGY RESOLUTION; GERMANIUM; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PROBES; PULSARS; RESOLUTION
Description/Abstract	Our scientific objective is to search for high energy annihilation lines from dark matter candidate particles and to measure the diffuse {gamma}-ray spectrum as a probe of cosmological distances and volumes. To pursue this objective we need a detector that has good energy resolution, better than 1% at 3 GeV. Such resolution is required to identify {gamma}-ray lines which are separated by {approx} hundred MeV at energies of a few Gev and to separate these lines from the continuum background produced by high galactic latitude cosmic ray collisions. The detector must be able to locate or map sources. The directional accuracy required for pointing to the galactic center or to known pulsars is on the order of l{sup o} (16mrad) or better. To avoid degradation of signal by the atmosphere, the detector must be flown in space. The expected signal is low, suggesting that an exposure of something like 1 m{sup 2}-yr is required to gather a statistically significant number of events. In this document we will look at alternative methods for detection of high energy {gamma}-ray lines in space and argue that a fully active Ge volume is the optimum detector that can be built.
Country of Publication	United States
Language	English
System Entry Date	2007 Apr 30
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