The GLAST LAT tracker construction and test
2007
GLAST is a next generation high-energy
gamma-rayobservatory designed for making observations of celestial
gamma-raysources in the energy band extending from 10 KeV to more than 300 GeV. Respect to the previous instrument
EGRET, GLAST will have a higher effective area (six times more), higher field of view, energy range and resolution, providing an unprecedented advance in sensitivity (a factor 30 or more). The main scientific goals are the study of all
gamma-raysources such as
blazars,
gamma-ray bursts,
supernova remnants, pulsars, diffuse radiation, and unidentified high-energy sources. The construction and test of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) tracker, has been a great effort during the past years, involving tens of people from many Italian INFN sections and industrial partners. Environmental and performance tests of the hardware, detectors and reading electronics, have been carried on during all the steps of the LAT construction. The resulting LAT performance are better than the ones required by the original science proposal, demonstrating the quality of the italian group effort. In this article we summarize the LAT construction and test workflow, presenting its main results.
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