New Developments in the Laue Project
Liccardo, V. ; Frontera, F. ; Virgilli, E. ; et al. ; - ASI Sponsor
Jan - 2015
DOI: 10.1142/9789814623995_0044
Event Title : The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories
Published in: Proceedings of the MG13 Meeting on General Relativity
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
type: Conference Proceedings
Abstract
We present the last developments of the LAUE project, whose main goal is to build a Laue lens for soft gamma-ray astronomy (80-600 keV) and to set an advanced technology for assembling high focal length focusing optics. With such a lens we expect to increase the sensitivity of the current non-focusing instruments by 2 orders of magnitude in the energy range above mentioned.
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Notes : The project is supported by the AgenziaSpaziale Italiana (ASI) through the project LAUE