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X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop SLAC, Stanford, California 9-11 February 2004 |
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The NCT Balloon-Borne Gamma-Ray Polarimeter
Steven
Boggs
UC Berkeley
boggs@ssl.berkeley.edu
S. Boggs, M. Amman, W. Coburn, P. Jean, D. Smith, J. Bowen, W. Craig, R. Lin, P. Luke, N. Madden, P. von Ballmoos, K. Ziock
The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne gamma-ray (0.2-10 MeV) polarimeter, spectrometer, and imager. NCT is designed primarily to study both polarized gamma-ray sources, as well as nuclear line emission. The heart of NCT is an array of twelve large volume cross strip germanium detectors designed to provide the 3-D position for each photon interaction with ~1mm resolution, while maintaning the high spectral resolution of germanium detectors. We will discuss the sensitivity and goals of NCT for polarization, as well as discuss the status of the upcoming 2-detector prototype flight of the NCT instrument.
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