1996/12/13 by I. -A. Yadigaroglu
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as Exper.Astron. 7 (1997) 221-237 · 17 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 1996/12/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Previous studies have shown that the largest gamma-ray detector to date, EGRET, does not have useful polarization sensitivity. We have explored here some improved approaches to analyzing gamma-ray pair production events, leading to important gains in sensitivity to polarization. The performance of the next generation gamma-ray instrument GLAST is investigated using a detailed Monte Carlo simulation of the complete detector.