Speaker
Dr
Nicholas Cannady
(Goddard Space Flight Center)
Description
In this talk I discuss three proposed space-based missions covering a variety of astroparticle physics science topics: the AMEGO-X MIDEX-class all-sky medium-energy gamma-ray telescope, the TIGERISS Pioneers-class cosmic-ray telescope for measuring nuclear abundances over a very wide range of charges, and the developing GECCO concept combining a Compton telescope with a deployable coded mask for high angular resolution imaging for medium-energy gamma rays. These missions designs all incorporate silicon photomultipliers as an enabling technology. I will discuss briefly the motivation for each of these instruments, their overall detector designs, and the specific roles that silicon photomultipliers uniquely play in their implementation.
Primary author
Dr
Nicholas Cannady
(Goddard Space Flight Center)
