With several techniques to concentrate high energy photons now being established the time is appropriate for a workshop on

FOCUSING TELESCOPES IN NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

September 12 - 15, 2005
Espace St. Jacques, Bonifacio, Corsica

Gamma-ray Optics

  • multilayer-mirrors
  • Bragg-lenses
  • Laue-lenses
  • Fresnel Lenses
  • gravitational optics
  • optical benches

Focal plane instrumentation

  • detector arrays
  • Compton cameras
  • solid state detectors
  • phonon detectors
  • polarimeters

Flight systems for focusing telescopes

  • balloon flights 
  • formation flying satellites

Related sciences

  • nuclear medecine
  • treaty verification
  • nuclear power plants
  • gamma-ray beams

A technology route map for gamma-ray missions beyond INTEGRAL

Update : Septembre 2005
Questions and comments : Peter von Ballmoos