Abstract

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"The Balloon-Borne Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)"

 
LXeGRIT is a novel Compton telescope based on a liquid xenon time
projection chamber (LXeTPC) for imaging cosmic gamma-rays in the energy
band 0.2 - 20 MeV.Xenon ionization and scintillation light signals are
detected to measure the energy deposits and the three spatial coordinates
of individual gamma-ray interactions within the sensitive volume.
The LXeTPC spectroscopy and Compton imaging performance from calibration
experiments and initial results from the 1999 balloon flight are
presented.

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