HARPO: Beam characterization of a TPC for gamma-ray polarimetry and high angular-resolution astronomy in the MeV-GeV range

Shaobo Wang; Denis Bernard; Philippe Bruel; Mickael Frotin; Yannick Geerebaert; Berrie Giebels; Philippe Gros; Deirdre Horan; Marc Louzir; Patrick Poilleux; Igor Semeniouk; David Attié; Denis Calvet; Paul Colas; Alain Delbart; Patrick Sizun; Diego Götz; Sho Amano; Takuya Kotaka; Satoshi Hashimoto; Yasuhito Minamiyama; Akinori Takemoto; Masashi Yamaguchi; Shuji Miyamoto; Schin Daté; Haruo Ohkuma

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012016

HARPO: Beam characterization of a TPC for gamma-ray polarimetry and high angular-resolution astronomy in the MeV-GeV range

Shaobo Wang
, Denis Bernard
, Philippe Bruel
, Mickael Frotin
, Yannick Geerebaert
, Berrie Giebels
, Philippe Gros
, Deirdre Horan
, Marc Louzir
, Patrick Poilleux
, Igor Semeniouk
, David Attié
, Denis Calvet
, Paul Colas
, Alain Delbart
, Patrick Sizun
, Diego Götz
, Sho Amano
, Takuya Kotaka
, Satoshi Hashimoto

Yasuhito Minamiyama, Akinori Takemoto, Masashi Yamaguchi, Shuji Miyamoto, Schin Daté, Haruo Ohkuma

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Abstract

A time projection chamber (TPC) can be used to measure the polarization of gamma rays with excellent angular precision and sensitivity in the MeV-GeV energy range through the conversion of photons to e⁺e^- pairs. The Hermetic ARgon POlarimeter (HARPO) prototype was built to demonstrate this concept. It was recently tested in the polarized photon beam at the NewSUBARU facility in Japan. We present this data-taking run, which demonstrated the excellent performance of the HARPO TPC.

Original language	English
Article number	012016
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	650
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012016
Publication status	Published - 16 Nov 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th International Symposium on Large TPCs for Low-Energy Rare Event Detection - Paris, France Duration: 15 Dec 2014 → 17 Dec 2014

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Wang, S., Bernard, D., Bruel, P., Frotin, M., Geerebaert, Y., Giebels, B., Gros, P., Horan, D., Louzir, M., Poilleux, P., Semeniouk, I., Attié, D., Calvet, D., Colas, P., Delbart, A., Sizun, P., Götz, D., Amano, S., Kotaka, T., ... Ohkuma, H. (2015). HARPO: Beam characterization of a TPC for gamma-ray polarimetry and high angular-resolution astronomy in the MeV-GeV range. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 650(1), Article 012016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012016

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