Design, Develop, Fabricate, Test and Deliver a Protoflight Medium-to-High-Energy Electron Detector for Integration into a Small On-Board Diagnostic Sensors Package

Abstract

An electron spectrometer is being designed to measure electron flux in the range of 3 to 30 MeV. A breadboard unit has been designed and tested, using a solid state detector telescope for geometric factor and a Cerenkov radiator/PMT for energy measurement. The measured response to electrons is very broad, so the Cerenkov radiator is being redesigned as a larger volume with larger PMTs to improve the energy resolution. Following testing of the modified Cerenkov radiator/PMT, a protoflight unit will be fabricated, tested and calibrated. The protoflight electron spectrometer is to be integrated to the Small Onboard Environmental Diagnostic Sensors (SOBEDS) Package.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 10, 1997
Accession Number
ADA339588

Entities

People

  • Frederick A. Hanser
  • Jefferey E. Belue
  • Paul R. Morel

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplifiers
  • Analog Signals
  • Circuit Boards
  • Data Processing
  • Detectors
  • Electron Energy
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • High Energy
  • Printed Circuits
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Signal Processing
  • Spacecraft
  • Spectrometers

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  • Physics

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  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Software Engineering
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space