In search of the third dimension in Compton x-ray polarimeters

Fabio Muleri; Riccardo Campana; Edoardo Borciani; Lorenzo Amati; Enrico Costa; Nicolas De Angelis; Ettore Del Monte; Alessandro Di Marco; Sergio Fabiani; Mauro Fiorini; Dawoon E. Kim; Riccardo Ferrazzoli; Fabio La Monaca; Carlo Lefevre; Giovanni Lombardi; Hemanth Manikantan; Ezequiel J. Marchesini; Romana Mikusincova; Alfredo Morbidini; Alessio Nuti; John Rankin; Ajay Ratheesh; Alda Rubini; Paolo Soffitta; Enrico Virgilli

doi:10.1117/12.3019964

21 August 2024 In search of the third dimension in Compton x-ray polarimeters

Fabio Muleri, Riccardo Campana, Edoardo Borciani, Lorenzo Amati, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Ettore Del Monte, Alessandro Di Marco, Sergio Fabiani, Mauro Fiorini, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Fabio La Monaca, Carlo Lefevre, Giovanni Lombardi, Hemanth Manikantan, Ezequiel J. Marchesini, Romana Mikusincova, Alfredo Morbidini, Alessio Nuti, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Alda Rubini, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Virgilli

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1309382 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019964
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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Compton polarimeters are typically designed to be sensitive only to the azimuthal angle of the scattered photon, ignoring the scattering angle. Such a 2-dimensional reconstruction of the event is pursued for both simplicity and because the polarization of the incident photon influences only the azimuthal response of the instrument. While this is true for on-axis sources, when the source starts to be off-axis of several degrees the azimuthal response of the instrument is effectively a convolution of the azimuthal and polar scattering angles: measuring the latter would provide a better sensitivity and smaller systematic effects. In this contribution, we will present a design which allows to estimate the scattering angle in a Compton polarimeter through the read-out of the light signal at the two ends of scintillator bars. Such a design is being tested with a representative set-up and first results on the performance are presented.

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Fabio Muleri, Riccardo Campana, Edoardo Borciani, Lorenzo Amati, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Ettore Del Monte, Alessandro Di Marco, Sergio Fabiani, Mauro Fiorini, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Fabio La Monaca, Carlo Lefevre, Giovanni Lombardi, Hemanth Manikantan, Ezequiel J. Marchesini, Romana Mikusincova, Alfredo Morbidini, Alessio Nuti, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Alda Rubini, Paolo Soffitta, and Enrico Virgilli "In search of the third dimension in Compton x-ray polarimeters", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1309382 (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019964

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