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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 4: Poster Session

EP 4.29: Poster

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 11:15–12:45, Poster OG

Simulation results of the Electron-Proton Telescope for Solar Orbiter — •Sebastian Boden, Jan Steinhagen, Shrinivasrao Kulkarni, Jan Grunau, Rolf Paspirgilis, César Martin, Stephan Böttcher, Lars Seimetz, Björn Schuster, Alexander Kulemzin, and Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber — Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

The Electron Proton Telescope (EPT) is one of five instruments in the Energetic Particle Detector suite for Solar Orbiter. It investigates low energy electrons and protons of solar events. EPT covers an energy range from 20 - 400 keV for electrons and 20 keV - 7 MeV for protons and distinguishes electrons from protons using a magnet/foil technique with silicon detectors.

There will be two EPT units, each with double-barreled telescopes, one looking sunwards/antisunwards and the other north/south.

EPT is designed using the GEometry ANd Tracking (GEANT) simulation toolkit developed by CERN for Monte Carlo calculations. Here we present the details of our simulations and the simulation results with respect to energy coverage and the geometrical factor of the EPT instrument. We will also look at the far-field of the EPT magnets, which is important for electo-magnetic cleanliness considerations.