Ground-based calibration and characterization of the HE detectors for Insight-HXMT

2019/10/10 by Xufang Li, Li, XuFang, Congzhan Liu +59
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.04359

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Abstract

High energy X-ray telescope (HE) is one of the three instruments of Insight-HXMT(Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) payload. The HE detector (HED) array is composed of 18 actively NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich scintillators with a total geometric area of ~ 5100cm² and cover the energy range 20-250 keV. In this paper we describe the on-ground detector-level calibration campaigns and present the principal instrument properties of HEDs.

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