G. G. C. Palumbo

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  Available from: Andrea Bulgarelli

  Article: Simbol-X Background Minimization: Mirror Spacecraft Passive Shielding Trade-Off Study

  V. Fioretti, G. Malaguti, A. Bulgarelli, G. G. C. Palumbo, A. Ferri, P. Attina
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  ABSTRACT: The present work shows a quantitative trade-off analysis of the Simbol-X Mirror Spacecraft (MSC) passive shielding, in the phase space of the various parameters: mass budget, dimension, geometry, and composition. A simplified physical (and geometrical) model of the sky screen, implemented by means of a GEANT4 simulation, has been developed to perform a performance-driven mass optimization and evaluate the residual background level on Simbol-X focal plane. Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the second Simbol-X International Symposium "Simbol-X - Focusing on the Hard X-ray Universe", AIP Conf. Proc. Series, P. Ferrando and J. Rodriguez eds
  02/2009;