FiberGLAST: A High-Energy Gamma-Ray Telescope for the GLAST Mission
based on Scintillating Fiber Detectors
The FiberGLAST Collaboration:
G.R. Karr, R.M. Kippen, R.S. Mallozzi, W.S. Paciesas,
T.A. Parnell, G.N. Pendleton, S. Phengchamnan, G.A. Richardson,
D.B. Wallace
W.R. Binns, J.H. Buckley, P. Dowkontt, J.W. Epstein, P.L. Hink,
M.H. Israel, K. Rielage
J. Macri, M.L. McConnell, J.M. Ryan
M.L. Cherry, T.G. Guzik, S.C. Kappadath, J.G. Stacy
M.J. Christl, G.J. Fishman, R.B. Wilson
T.O. Tumer
K. Arisaka, M. Atac, D. Cline, Y. Pischalnikov
Abstract
FiberGLAST is one of two main-instrument concepts being studied for
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission. It uses
a large volume ( ~ 3 m3) of scintillating fiber detectors
combined with passive conversion material to image gamma-ray induced
showers in the energy range ~ 10 MeV to 300 GeV. In addition to
meeting the formidable GLAST science performance requirements,
FiberGLAST offers exceptionally large effective detection area ( > 1
m2) over a wide field-of-view ( > 70 deg HWHM). These
characteristics make it well-suited to perform a sensitive all-sky
survey and to monitor a large population of variable sources, such as
active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts. We present an overview
of the FiberGLAST instrument concept design and report results on
hardware development, accelerator beam test results, and instrument
performance simulations.
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