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pair telescope

(telescope that detects gamma rays via pair production)

The term pair telescope refers to a gamma-ray telescope designed to detect high-energy photons by detecting the pair production they produce within its scintillator. Such photons have an energy of at least 1 MeV but practically speaking, 30 MeV is the photon energy at which pair production predominates. Fermi (aka GLAST) uses this concept.

(telescope type,gamma rays)
Further reading:
http://astroa.physics.metu.edu.tr/lece/pair_telescopes.html
https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/conferences/future_gamma_obs/program/jb_apt_gsfc_feb15.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014APh....59...18H/abstract
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220000717/downloads/Pair_Production_Chapter.pdf
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20122
https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07349
https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/hea2020-abstracts_1.pdf

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