THE LAUE PROJECT FOR BROADBAND GAMMA-RAY FOCUSING LENSES

We present the LAUE project devoted to develop an advanced technology for building a high focal length Laue lens for hard X and soft gamma–ray astronomy (80-600 keV). The final goal of the project, supported by the Italian Space Agency, is to build and test a focusing optics that can improve the current sensitivity in the above energy band by 2 orders of magnitude.