Acta Physica Polonica B
Vol. 32, No. 9, September 2001, page 2395
Development of \gamma -Ray Tracking Detectors
R.M. Lieder, W. Gast, H.M. Jaeger, L. Mihailescu, M. Rossewij, J. Eberth, G. Pascovici, H.G. Thomas, D. Weisshaar, F. Beck, D. Curien, G. Duchene, E. Pachoud, I. Piqueras, C. Rossi Alvarez, D. Bazzacco, M. Bellato, Th. Kroell, Ch. Manea, B. Quintana, R. Venturelli, D.R. Napoli, D. Rosso, P. Spolaore, A. Geraci, A. Pullia, G. Ripamonti, F. Camera, S. Leoni, B. Million, O. Wieland, A. Bracco, M. Pignanelli, S. Brambilla, J. Lisle, A.G. Smith, R. Well, P. Nolan, A. Boston, D. Cullen, M. Descovich, T. Enqvist, B. Cederwall, E. Ideguchi, J. van der Marel, J. Nyberg, B. Herskind, G. Sletten, J. Wilson, B. Redouin, R. Henck, D. Gutknecht, K. Jaeaeskelaeinen
The next generation of 4 \pi arrays for high-precision \gamma -ray spectroscopy
AGATA will consist of \gamma -ray tracking detectors. They represent high-fold
segmented Ge detectors and a front-end electronics, based on digital signal
processing techniques, which allows to extract energy, timing and spatial
information on the interactions of a \gamma -ray in the Ge detector by
pulse shape analysis of its signals. Utilizing the information on the positions
of the interaction points and the energies released at each point the tracks
of the \gamma -rays in a Ge shell can be reconstructed in three dimensions
on the basis of the Compton-scattering formula.
PACS numbers: 29.30.Kv, 29.40.Gx, 29.40.Wk
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