FOCUSING TELESCOPES IN NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

Presentations

Scientific requirements and prospects

		Jürgen KNOEDLSEDER CESR Toulouse	Prospects in space-based Gamma-Ray Astronomy
		Sergey SAZONOV MPI Garching	Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy
		Richard GRIFFITHS Carnegie Mellon University	AGN at High Energy and the Prospects for 511 keV annihilation lines
		Paolo GIOMMI & S. COLAFRANCESCO ASI Science Data Center / INAF Frascati/Roma	Non-termal Cosmic Backgrounds from Blazars. Cosmological impact of gamma-ray observations of pointlike and diffuse extragalactic sources.
		Andrea COMASTRI INAF, Osservat. Astronomico di Bologna	The sources of the hard X-ray / gamma-ray backgrounds
		Didier BARRET CESR Toulouse	Focusing on X-ray binaries and microquasars
		Mark LEISING Clemson University	Focusing on Supernovae
		Margarida HERNANZ IEEC Barcelona	Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: prospects for their observation with focusing telescopes
		David SMITH Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics	Puzzles and Potential for Gamma-ray Line Observations of Solar Flare Ion Acceleration
		Pietro UBERTINI IASF Roma	The INTEGRAL - HESS connection: a new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV

Gamma-ray Optics

		Pierre BASTIE LSP, St Martin d'Hères	The Basic Principles of crystal diffraction
		Hubert HALLOIN MPE Garching	Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics : physics basis and simulations
		Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	Hard X-ray optics based on Bragg reflection from mosaic crystals: a review
		Brian RAMSEY Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville	Replicated Nickel Optics for the Hard-X-Ray Region
		Carsten JENSEN Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	Small d-spacing WC/SIC multilayers for future hard x-ray telescope designs
		Ernst-Jan BUIS Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	On and Off-Axis Response of Grazing Gamma-Ray Optics
		Melville ULMER Northwestern University, Evanston	Progress Toward Light Wright High Angular Resolution Multilayer Coated Optics
		Jack TUELLER et al.	InFOCuS hard X-ray imaging telescope
		Nikolaï ABROSIMOV Institut für Kristallzünchtung, Berlin	Mosaic and Gradient Single Crystals for Gamma ray Laue Lenses
		Bob SMITHER Argonnel Natl. Laboratories, Chicago	High Diffraction Efficiency, Broadband Diffraction Crystals
		Niels LUND Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	Imaging with Laue Optics
		Alessandro PISA INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (>60 keV)
		Pierre COURTOIS Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble	Copper Mosaic Crystals for Laue Lens
		Dante ROA University of California, Irvine	Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for nuclear diagnostic medicine
		F. HARRISON & D. Smith Caltech, Pasadena	The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
		Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission
		Fillipo FRONTERA INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	HAXTEL: a Laue lens telescope for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray (>60 keV) sky
		Peter VON BALLMOOS CESR, Toulouse	CLAIRE : First Light of a Crystal Diffraction Lens
		Nicolas BARRIERE CESR, Toulouse	MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics
		Nicola RANDO Science Payload & Adv. Concepts Office	The Gamma Ray Lens : An ESA technology reference study
		Gerry SKINNER CESR, Toulouse	Fresnel Lenses - why not ?
		John KRIZMANIC USRA/NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt	X-ray Imaging Performance of a Phase Fresnel Lens
		Laurent KOECHLIN OMP, Toulouse	Multiwavelenght Focusing with the Sun as Gravitational Lens

Focal plane instrumentation

		Tadayuki TAKAHASHI ISAS, Kanagawa	High Sensitivity Si/CdTe Compton Telescope
		Ezio CAROLI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna	Polarisation performances of CdTe pixel detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telescopes
		Mauro QUADRINI INAF, IASF Sez Occhialini Milano	Solid state detectors for Gamma Ray Telescope Application
		Ernst Jan BUIS Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions
		C. WUNDERER Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Performance of dedicated Ge Strip Compton Telescopes as gamma-Lens Focal Plane Instrumentation
		Georg WEIDENSPOINTNER CESR, Toulouse	Monte Carlo Study of Detector Concepts for the MAX Laue Lens Gamma-Ray Telescope
		S. BOGGS & C. WUNDERER Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope
		Robert ANDRITSCHKE et al. MPE, Garching	The MEGA detector as focal plane instrument
		Ezio CAROLI & John STEVEN INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna	CZT poster

Ground facilities and Flight systems for focusing telescopes

		A. LAURENS & J. EVRARD ASTRIUM, Toulouse	Performance of dedicated Ge Strip Compton Telescopes as gamma-Lens Focal Plane Instrumentation
		Jacques BORDE ASTRIUM, Toulouse	Small-sat Platforms and Formation Flying :an opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX
		Emmanuel HINGLAIS CNES, Toulouse	Distributed space segment architectures for high energy astrophysic: Similarities and specificities
		Rodolphe CLEDASSOU CNES, Toulouse	The Formation Flying mission SIMBOL-X
		Paul DUCHON CNES, Toulouse	MAX Formation Flying for nuclear astrophysics
		F. ARBUSTI & M. SGHEDONI Alcatel Alenia Space, Cannes	Recent Advances and Low cost concept for the Gamma-Ray Lens Project MAX
		Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	Calibration of hard X-ray (15 50 keV) optics at the MPE test facility PANTER
		Gianluca LOFFREDO INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes

Update : 29 September 2005
Questions and comments : Peter von Ballmoos