Towards a response function for the COSI anticoincidence system: preliminary results from Geant4 simulations

Alex Ciabattoni; Valentina Fioretti; John Tomsick; Andreas Zoglauer; Pierre Jean; Daniel Alvarez Franco; Peter von Ballmoos; Andrea Bulgarelli; Cristian Vignali; Nicolò Parmiggiani; Gabriele Panebianco; Luca Castaldini

doi:10.1117/12.3020252

21 August 2024 Towards a response function for the COSI anticoincidence system: preliminary results from Geant4 simulations

Alex Ciabattoni, Valentina Fioretti, John Tomsick, Andreas Zoglauer, Pierre Jean, Daniel Alvarez Franco, Peter von Ballmoos, Andrea Bulgarelli, Cristian Vignali, Nicolò Parmiggiani, Gabriele Panebianco, Luca Castaldini

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 130937Y (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020252
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is an upcoming NASA Small Explorer satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2027 and designed to conduct an all-sky survey in the energy range of 0.2-5 MeV. Its instrument consists of an array of germanium detectors surrounded on four sides and underneath by active shields that work as anticoincidence system (ACS) to reduce the contribution of background events in the detectors. These shields are composed of bismuth germanium oxide (BGO), a scintillator material, coupled with Silicon photomultipliers, aimed to collect optical photons produced from interaction of ionizing particles in the BGO and convert them into an electric signal. The reference simulation framework for COSI is MEGAlib, a set of software tools based on the Geant4 toolkit. The interaction point of the incoming radiation, the design of the ACS modules and the BGO surface treatment change the light collection and the overall shielding accuracy. The use of the Geant4 optical physics library, with the simulation of the scintillation process, is mandatory for a more realistic evaluation of the ACS performances. However, including the optical processes in MEGAlib would dramatically increase the computing time of the COSI simulations. We propose the use of a response function encoding the energy resolution and 3D light yield correction based on a separate Geant4 simulation of the ACS that includes the full optical interaction. We present the verification of the Geant4 optical physics library against analytical computations and available laboratory measurements obtained using PMTs as readout device, as a preparatory phase for the simulation of the COSI ACS response.

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Alex Ciabattoni, Valentina Fioretti, John Tomsick, Andreas Zoglauer, Pierre Jean, Daniel Alvarez Franco, Peter von Ballmoos, Andrea Bulgarelli, Cristian Vignali, Nicolò Parmiggiani, Gabriele Panebianco, and Luca Castaldini "Towards a response function for the COSI anticoincidence system: preliminary results from Geant4 simulations", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130937Y (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020252

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