AAS Meeting #193 - Austin, Texas, January 1999
Session 66. X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Detectors
Display, Friday, January 8, 1999, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

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[66.02] FiberGLAST Engineering Test Results

K. Rielage, W. R. Binns, J. H. Buckley, P. L. Hink, M. H. Israel (Washington U.), G. N. Pendleton, R. M. Kippen, R. S. Mallozzi, W. S. Paciesas, G. A. Richardson (UAH), G. J. Fishman, M. Christl, T. Parnell, R. B. Wilson (NASA/MSFC), J. Macri, M. McConnell, J. Ryan (UNH), T. Tumer (UCR)

FiberGLAST is an instrument concept for NASA's upcoming GLAST mission that utilizes scintillating fiber technology. Operating in the energy range from 10 MeV to 300 GeV, FiberGLAST will achieve a sensitivity approximately 10 times better than EGRET over a wide field of view. The detector is composed of modular layers of thin sheets of tantalum and orthogonal layers of plastic scintillating fibers. The fibers are read out using multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMTs). Engineering studies, tests, and further simulations are currently underway. We present results from a recent accelerator test of an engineering model at Jefferson National Laboratory and results from vibration tests of the MAPMTs at NASA/MSFC.


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