Balloon-borne gamma-ray telescope with nuclear emulsion

29 Jun 2010, 11:20
15m
One West (Fermilab)

One West

Fermilab

PO Box 500 Batavia, IL 60510
Contributed Balloon and satellite experiments Balloon and Satellite Experiments

Speaker

Dr Satoru Takahashi (Nagoya University)

Description

We are planning to observe cosmic gamma-ray in the energy range 10MeV to 100GeV by balloon-borne gamma-ray telescope with nuclear emulsion. Nuclear emulsion is a precise tracker. By detecting starting point of electron pair, gamma-ray direction can be determined precisely (1.4mrad@1-2GeV). This is much better than Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched June 2008. Now we are developing the gamma-ray telescope with nuclear emulsion and are planning to observe by balloon flight. Overview and status of our telescope is talked in this presentation.

Primary author

Dr Satoru Takahashi (Nagoya University)

Co-authors

Atsumu Suzuki (Kobe University) Atsushi Iyono (Okayama University of Science) Hiroki Rokujo (Kobe University) Hirotaka Kubota (Nagoya University) Ikuo Tezuka (Utsunomiya University) Jiro Kawada (ISAS/JAXA) Junya Yoshida (Nagoya University) Kaname Hamada (Nagoya University) Kazuya Suzuki (Nagoya University) Keita Ozaki (Kobe University) Kimio Niwa (Nagoya University) Koichi Kodama (Aichi University of Education) Kunihiro Morishima (Nagoya University) Masahiro Komatsu (Nagoya University) Masashi Kazuyama (Nagoya University) Mitsuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University) Motoaki Miyanishi (Nagoya University) Naotaka Naganawa (Nagoya University) Osamu Sato (Nagoya University) Seigo Miyamoto (Nagoya University) Shigeki Aoki (Kobe University) Shinichiro Koshiba (Nagoya University) Takashi Sako (Nagoya University) Tatsuhiro Naka (Nagoya University) Teppei Yoshioka (Nagoya University) Toshio Hara (Kobe University) Toshiyuki Nakano (Nagoya University) Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya University) Yoshiaki Nonoyama (Nagoya University) Yoshihiro Sato (Utsunomiya University)

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