Semiconductor detector workshop - From fundamental research to everyday application

ComPol - a Compton telescope in a nanosatellite

Not scheduled

20m

Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Posters

Speaker

Matthias Meier (TUM/MPP)

Description

ComPol is using a Silicon Drift Detector, together with a CeBr3 scintillator read out by a SiPM matrix to capture the kinematics of Compton scattering events. Thanks to the intrinsic dependency of the scattering process, it is possible to reconstruct the initial polarization of the incoming X-rays in the analysis.
The poster covers: astrophysical motivation, detector setup, position reconstruction in the CeBr3 with a NN, estimated sensitivity