Calorimeter calibration of the ComPol CubeSat gamma-ray polarimeter

Ion Cojocari; Matthias Meier; Philippe Laurent; Adrien Laviron; Marco Arrigucci; Marco Carminati; Griseld Deda; Carlo Fiorini; Katrin Geigenberger; Cynthia Glas; Jochen Greiner; Peter Hindenberger; Pietro King; Peter Lechner; Martin Losekamm; Susanne Mertens; David Meßmann; Sebastian Rückerl; Lorenzo Toscano; Ulrich Walter; Michael Willers

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167662

Calorimeter calibration of the ComPol CubeSat gamma-ray polarimeter

Ion Cojocari, Matthias Meier, Philippe Laurent, Adrien Laviron, Marco Arrigucci, Marco Carminati, Griseld Deda, Carlo Fiorini, Katrin Geigenberger, Cynthia Glas, Jochen Greiner, Peter Hindenberger, Pietro King, Peter Lechner, Martin Losekamm, Susanne Mertens, David Meßmann, Sebastian Rückerl, Lorenzo Toscano, Ulrich WalterMichael Willers

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ComPol is a proposed CubeSat mission dedicated to long-term study of gamma-ray polarisation of astrophysical objects. Besides spectral and timing measurements, polarisation analysis can be a powerful tool in constraining current models of the geometry, magnetic field structure and acceleration mechanisms of different astrophysical sources. The ComPol payload is a Compton telescope optimised for polarimetry and consists of a 2 layer stacked detector configuration. The top layer, the scatterer, is a Silicon Drift Detector matrix developed by the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Politecnico di Milano. The second layer is a calorimeter consisting of a CeBr₃ scintillator read-out by silicon photo-multipliers developed at CEA Saclay. This paper presents the results of the prototype calorimeter calibration campaign, executed in March 2022 at IJCLab Orsay and simulations of the expected performance of the polarimeter using updated performance figures of the detectors.

Original language	English
Article number	167662
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	1046
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167662
State	Published - 11 Jan 2023

Keywords

Astrophysics
CubeSat
Gamma ray
Instrumentation
Polarimetry
Scintillator
SiPM

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Cojocari, I., Meier, M., Laurent, P., Laviron, A., Arrigucci, M., Carminati, M., Deda, G., Fiorini, C., Geigenberger, K., Glas, C., Greiner, J., Hindenberger, P., King, P., Lechner, P., Losekamm, M., Mertens, S., Meßmann, D., Rückerl, S., Toscano, L., ... Willers, M. (2023). Calorimeter calibration of the ComPol CubeSat gamma-ray polarimeter. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1046, Article 167662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167662

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