The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged gamma-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. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
First results about on-ground calibration of the silicon tracker for the AGILE satellite / Cattaneo PW; Argan A; Boffelli F; Bulgarelli A; Buonomo B; Chen AW; DAmmando 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. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 630:1(2011), pp. 251-257. [10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.078]
First results about on-ground calibration of the silicon tracker for the AGILE satellite
D'AMMANDO, FILIPPO;
2011
Abstract
The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged gamma-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. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
