Implementation of techniques for background reduction in low-energy gamma ray telescopes
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Prometheus I, a low-energy ($\sim$0.06-12.0 MeV), balloon-borne gamma ray telescope has been developed and successfully flown. It consists of a central NaI(Tl) detector that is segmented into an array of 9 x 9 crystals and an active anticoincidence shield of thick plastic scintillator.
Implemented on Prometheus are several background reduction techniques which allow it to be 10 times more sensitive to aperture gamma rays than previous generations of low-energy gamma ray telescopes. First, a
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Moss, Michael Jamieson. "Implementation of techniques for background reduction in low-energy gamma ray telescopes." (1995) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13992.