@inproceedings{fe72511c8b774e97bb8970dfe8c310f0,
title = "MeV gamma-ray Compton camera using a gaseous electron tracker for background-suppressed observation",
abstract = "As a next generation MeV gamma-ray telescope, we develop an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) that consists of a gaseous electron tracker surrounded by pixel scintillator arrays. The tracks of the Compton-recoil electron measured by the tracker restrict the incident gamma-ray direction to an arc region on the sky and reject background by using the energy loss rate dE/dx and a Compton-kinematics test. In 2013, we constructed, for a balloon experiment, a 30-cm-cubic ETCC with an effective area of ∼1 cm2 for detecting sub-MeV gamma rays (5 σ detection of the Crab Nebula for 4 h). In future work, we will extend this ETCC to an effective area of ∼10 cm2. In the present paper, we report the performance of the current ETCC.",
keywords = "Compton telescope, MeV gamma-ray astronomy, balloon experiment",
author = "A. Takada and T. Tanimori and H. Kubo and Parker, {J. D.} and T. Mizumoto and Y. Mizumura and T. Sawano and K. Nakamura and Y. Matsuoka and S. Komura and S. Nakamura and M. Oda and K. Miuchi and S. Kurosawa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 22-06-2014 Through 26-06-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2055627",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Tadayuki Takahashi and {den Herder}, {Jan-Willem A.} and Mark Bautz",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014",
}