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Calibration of the Space-borne Compton Polarimeter POLAR flight model with 100% polarized X-ray beams

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arxiv 1704.06173 v2 pith:LDIWEAHH submitted 2017-04-20 physics.ins-det astro-ph.IMnucl-ex

Calibration of the Space-borne Compton Polarimeter POLAR flight model with 100% polarized X-ray beams

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POLAR is space-borne detector designed for a precise measurement of gamma-ray polarization of the prompt emissions of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50 keV - 500 keV. POLAR is a compact Compton polarimeter consisting of 40$\times$ 40 plastic scintillator bars read out by 25 multi-anode PMTs. In May 2015, we performed a series of tests of the POLAR flight model with 100\% polarized x-rays beams at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility beam-line ID11 aming to study thresholds, crosstalk between channels and responses of POLAR flight model to polarized X-ray beams. In this paper we present the data analysis method and some analysis results. According the results, POLAR FM has good polarimetric capabilities.

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