Labanti 2008 Mini-Calorimeter on the AGILE satellite

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Title:		Design and construction of the Mini-Calorimeter of the AGILE satellite
Authors:		Labanti, C.; Marisaldi, M.; Fuschino, F.; Galli, M.; Argan, A.; Bulgarelli, A.; Di Cocco, G.; Gianotti, F.; Tavani, M.; Trifoglio, M.
Publication:		eprint arXiv:0810.1842
Publication Date:		10/2008
Origin:		ARXIV
Keywords:		Astrophysics
Comment:		36 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A; doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.09.021
Bibliographic Code:		2008arXiv0810.1842L

Abstract

AGILE is a small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to gamma-ray and hard-X astrophysics, successfully launched on April 23 2007. The AGILE Payload is composed of three instruments: a gamma-ray imager based on a tungsten-silicon tracker (ST), for observations in the gamma ray energy range 30MeV - 50GeV, a Silicon based X-ray detector, SuperAGILE (SA), for imaging in the range 18keV - 60keV and a CsI(Tl) Mini-Calorimeter (MCAL) that detects gamma rays or charged particles energy loss in the range 300keV - 100MeV. MCAL is composed of 30 CsI(Tl) scintillator bars with photodiode readout at both ends, arranged in two orthogonal layers. MCAL can work both as a slave of the ST and as an independent gamma-ray detector for transients and gamma-ray bursts detection. In this paper a detailed description of MCAL is presented together with its performance.

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