Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment
© 2019 IEEE. Large-area lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors, operable 150°C above liquid nitrogen temperature, have been developed for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon mission and will form the first such system to operate in space. These 10 cm-diameter, 2.5 mm-thick multi...
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| author | Rogers, Field Xiao, Mengjiao Perez, Kerstin Boggs, Steven Erjavec, Tyler Fabris, Lorenzo Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles J Kozai, Masayoshi Lowell, Alex Madden, Norman Manghisoni, Massimo McBride, Steve Re, Valerio Riceputi, Elisa Saffold, Nathan Shimizu, Yuki Zampa, Gianluigi |
| author_facet | Rogers, Field Xiao, Mengjiao Perez, Kerstin Boggs, Steven Erjavec, Tyler Fabris, Lorenzo Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles J Kozai, Masayoshi Lowell, Alex Madden, Norman Manghisoni, Massimo McBride, Steve Re, Valerio Riceputi, Elisa Saffold, Nathan Shimizu, Yuki Zampa, Gianluigi |
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| description | © 2019 IEEE. Large-area lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors, operable 150°C above liquid nitrogen temperature, have been developed for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon mission and will form the first such system to operate in space. These 10 cm-diameter, 2.5 mm-thick multi-strip detectors have been verified in the lab to provide < 4 keV FWHM energy resolution for X-rays as well as tracking capability for charged particles, while operating in conditions (~-40C and ~1 Pa) achievable on a long-duration balloon mission with a large detector payload. These characteristics enable the GAPS silicon tracker system to identify cosmic antinuclei via a novel technique based on exotic atom formation, de-excitation, and annihilation. Production and large-scale calibration of ~1000 detectors has begun for the first GAPS flight, scheduled for late 2021. The detectors developed for GAPS may also have other applications, for example in heavy nuclei identification. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1323602021-09-21T03:29:54Z Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment Rogers, Field Xiao, Mengjiao Perez, Kerstin Boggs, Steven Erjavec, Tyler Fabris, Lorenzo Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles J Kozai, Masayoshi Lowell, Alex Madden, Norman Manghisoni, Massimo McBride, Steve Re, Valerio Riceputi, Elisa Saffold, Nathan Shimizu, Yuki Zampa, Gianluigi © 2019 IEEE. Large-area lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors, operable 150°C above liquid nitrogen temperature, have been developed for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon mission and will form the first such system to operate in space. These 10 cm-diameter, 2.5 mm-thick multi-strip detectors have been verified in the lab to provide < 4 keV FWHM energy resolution for X-rays as well as tracking capability for charged particles, while operating in conditions (~-40C and ~1 Pa) achievable on a long-duration balloon mission with a large detector payload. These characteristics enable the GAPS silicon tracker system to identify cosmic antinuclei via a novel technique based on exotic atom formation, de-excitation, and annihilation. Production and large-scale calibration of ~1000 detectors has begun for the first GAPS flight, scheduled for late 2021. The detectors developed for GAPS may also have other applications, for example in heavy nuclei identification. 2021-09-20T18:22:01Z 2021-09-20T18:22:01Z 2020-11-09T15:15:21Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132360 en 10.1109/NSS/MIC42101.2019.9060023 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2019 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Rogers, Field Xiao, Mengjiao Perez, Kerstin Boggs, Steven Erjavec, Tyler Fabris, Lorenzo Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles J Kozai, Masayoshi Lowell, Alex Madden, Norman Manghisoni, Massimo McBride, Steve Re, Valerio Riceputi, Elisa Saffold, Nathan Shimizu, Yuki Zampa, Gianluigi Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title | Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title_full | Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title_fullStr | Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title_short | Large-area Si(Li) Detectors for X-ray Spectrometry and Particle Tracking for the GAPS Experiment |
| title_sort | large area si li detectors for x ray spectrometry and particle tracking for the gaps experiment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132360 |
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