Speaker
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN Pisa)
Description
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (previously known as GLAST) is an international and multi-agency space mission that is studying the cosmos in the energy range 20 MeV - 1 TeV. Fermi is a gamma-ray observatory much more capable than instruments flown previously. The main instrument on board of the spacecraft is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), a high energy pair conversion telescope consisting of three major subsystems: a precision silicon tracker/converter, a CsI electromagnetic calorimeter and a segmented anti-coincidence system. In this presentation, we describe the construction and tests of the silicon tracker and how this enterprise was made possible by the superb quality of the silicon sensors developed at the Hiroshima University within the the Oshugi's group
Author
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN Pisa)
