Despite many years of research on cosmic gamma-ray bursts, there are still many open questions about the model of gamma-ray generation by these sources. It is assumed that measuring the linear polarization of radiation can provide an answer to a number of unresolved questions in the physics of phenomena. The principle of registration of linear polarization of gamma radiation is based on the anisotropy of Compton scattering. This property is used to develop Compton polarimeters, which are an array of segmented scintillation detectors. In this paper, the authors conducted a simulation of the Compton polarimeter SGS/Chibis-AI, developed at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, using the Geant4 software package. The efficiency of detecting the polarization of gamma radiation with such a detector is being investigated.
95.55.Ka X- and γ-ray telescopes and instrumentation
95.55.Qf Photometric, polarimetric, and spectroscopic instrumentation
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$^2$Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
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