Construction and testing of a pixellated CZT detector and shield for a hard x-ray astronomy balloon flight

Peter Forbes Bloser; Tomohiko Narita; Jonathan A. Jenkins; Jonathan E. Grindlay

doi:10.1117/12.409116

13 December 2000 Construction and testing of a pixellated CZT detector and shield for a hard x-ray astronomy balloon flight

Peter Forbes Bloser, Tomohiko Narita, Jonathan A. Jenkins, Jonathan E. Grindlay

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Proceedings Volume 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409116
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We report on the construction and laboratory testing of pixellated CZT detectors mounted in a flip-chip, tiled fashion and read out by an ASIC, as required for proposed hard X-ray astronomy missions. Two 10 mm X 10 mm X 5 mm detectors were fabricated, one out of standard eV Products high-pressure Bridgman CZT and one out of IMARAD horizontal Bridgman CZT. Each was fashioned with a 4 X 4 array of gold pixels on 2.5 mm pitch with a surrounding guard ring. The detectors were mounted side by side on a carrier card, such that the pixel pitch was preserved, and read out by a 32-channel VA-TA ASIC from IDE AS Corp. controlled by a PC/104 single-board computer. A passive shield/collimator surrounded by plastic scintillator encloses the detectors on five sides and provides an approximately 40 degree field of view. Thus this experiment tests key techniques required for future hard X-ray survey instruments. The experiment was taken to Ft. Sumner, NM in May 2000 in preparation for a scientific balloon flight aboard the joint Harvard-MSFC EXITE2/HERO payload. Although we did not receive a flight opportunity, and are currently scheduled to fly in September 2000, we present our calibration data in the flight configuration together with data analysis techniques and simulations of the expected flight background spectrum.

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Peter Forbes Bloser, Tomohiko Narita, Jonathan A. Jenkins, and Jonathan E. Grindlay "Construction and testing of a pixellated CZT detector and shield for a hard x-ray astronomy balloon flight", Proc. SPIE 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409116

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