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most citedThe case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

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astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

Imaging Polarimeter for a Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray All-Sky Survey using an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera

Shotaro Komura, Atsushi Takada, Yoshitaka Mizumura +17

X-ray and gamma-ray polarimetry is a promising tool to study the geometry and the magnetic configuration of various celestial objects, such as binary black holes or gamma-ray burst…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 33 cited

New readout and data-acquisition system in an electron-tracking Compton camera for MeV gamma-ray astronomy (SMILE-II)

Tetsuya Mizumoto, Yoshihiro Matsuoka, Yoshitaka Mizumura +17

For MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) as a MeV gamma-ray telescope capable of rejecting the radiation background and attaining t…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 57 cited

An Electron-Tracking Compton Telescope for a Survey of the Deep Universe by MeV gamma-rays

T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada +17

Photon imaging for MeV gammas has serious difficulties due to huge backgrounds and unclearness in images, which are originated from incompleteness in determining the physical param…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 6 cited

Performance of a new electron-tracking Compton camera under intense radiations from a water target irradiated with a proton beam

Yoshihiro Matsuoka, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo +16

We have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) for use in next-generation MeV gamma ray telescopes. An ETCC consists of a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC) and pi…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 22 cited

Development of a 30 cm-cube Electron-Tracking Compton Camera for the SMILE-II Experiment

Y. Mizumura, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo +16

To explore the sub-MeV/MeV gamma-ray window for astronomy, we have developed the Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC), and carried out the first performance test at room conditi…