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Elsevier, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2(598), p. 470-479

DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.09.021

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Design and construction of the Mini-Calorimeter of the AGILE satellite

Journal article published in 2008 by C. Labanti ORCID, M. Marisaldi, F. Fuschino, A. Argan ORCID, M. Galli ORCID, A. Bulgarelli ORCID, G. Di Cocco, F. Gianotti, M. Tavani, M. Trifoglio
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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. ; Comment: 36 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A