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Performance of long modules of silicon microstrip detectors
1998
This note describes the performance of modules assembled with up to twelve silicon microstrip detectors. These modules were built for the instrumented Silicon Target (STAR) that has been installed in the NOMAD spectrometer. Laboratory and test beam results are compared with model predictions. For a module of nine detectors, test beam results indicate a signal--to--noise ratio of 19, a hit finding efficiency of 99.8\% and a spatial resolution of 6.0 $\mu$m. Laboratory measurements indicate that modules of twelve detectors exhibit a signal--to--noise ratio of the order of 16.
Development of silicon pad detectors and readout electronics for a Compton camera
2003
Abstract Applications in nuclear medicine and bio-medical engineering may profit using a Compton camera for imaging distributions of radio-isotope labelled tracers in organs and tissues. These applications require detection of photons using thick position-sensitive silicon sensors with the highest possible energy and good spatial resolution. In this paper, research and development on silicon pad sensors and associated readout electronics for a Compton camera are presented. First results with low-noise, self-triggering VATAGP ASIC's are reported. The measured energy resolution was 1.1 keV FWHM at room temperature for the 241 Am photo-peak at 59.5 keV .
In-beam spectroscopy with intense ion beams: Evidence for a rotational structure in246Fm
2012
The rotational structure of ${}^{246}$Fm has been investigated using in-beam $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray spectroscopic techniques. The experiment was performed using the JUROGAMII germanium detector array coupled to the gas-filled recoil ion transport unit (RITU) and the gamma recoil electron alpha tagging (GREAT) focal plane detection system. Nuclei of ${}^{246}$Fm were produced using a 186 MeV beam of ${}^{40}$Ar impinging on a ${}^{208}$Pb target. The JUROGAMII array was fully instrumented with Tracking Numerical Treatment 2 Dubna (TNT2D) digital acquisition cards. The use of digital electronics and a rotating target allowed for unprecedented beam intensities of up to 71 particle-nanoamper…
Spectroscopy of Transfermium Nuclei
2006
The advent of efficient recoil separator devices coupled to large arrays of germanium detectors and versatile focal plane detection systems has in recent years allowed a wealth of spectroscopic information to be obtained for transfermium nuclei. At the Department of Physics at the University of Jyvaskyla, the RITU gas‐filled separator is employed in conjunction with the GREAT focal plane spectrometer and the JUROGAM array of germanium detectors. Whilst initial studies using these devices concentrated on even‐even nuclei, more recent experiments have attempted to study single‐particle properties by examining the structure of odd‐mass nuclei and multi‐quasiparticle states. An overview of the …
Photonuclear reactions induced by a clinical linac
2015
1st NUBA International Conference on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics -- SEP 14-21, 2014 -- Akdeniz Univ, Antalya, TURKEY
Very Low Energy Protons From the Beta Decay of Proton Rich Nuclei For Nuclear Astrophysics
2010
The MARS group at TAMU has developed a new experimental technique to measure very low energy protons from β-delayed proton-decay of proton-rich nuclei produced and separated with the MARS recoil spectrometer at TAMU. Recently we have investigated the β-delayed p-decays of 23Al [1], and 31Cl [2], and obtained information on the resonances in the 22Na(p,γ)23Mg and 30P(p,γ) 31S reactions, respectively. These reactions are important in explosive H-burning in Novae [3]. Recently an experiment looking at the β-delayed p-decay of 20Mg was also done in order to obtain information on resonances in the 19Ne(p,γ)20Na reaction. A simple setup consisting of a telescope made of a thin double sided Si str…
The muX project
2021
The project is conducting a series of muonic X-ray measurements in medium- and high-Z nuclei at PSI, utilizing a high-purity germanium detector array, in-beam muon detectors, and a modern digital data-acquisition system. A novel hydrogen target for muon transfer was developed, enabling measurements with as little as a few micrograms of target material. First measurements with radioactive Cm and Ra targets were conducted, aimed at determining their nuclear charge radii. These serve as important input for upcoming atomic parity violation experiments. The apparatus is also used to perform a feasibility study of an atomic parity violation experiment with the 2s-1s2s−1s muonic X-ray transition. …
Corrections for positon annihilation in flight in nuclear spectrometry
1973
Abstract Theories of positon single- and two-quanta annihilation in flight, the Fermi beta-decay theory, and theories of positon energy loss are used in calculations of total probabilities of annihilation in flight of positons in continuous spectra. The results are given in a nomogram useful in correcting for positon annihilation in flight in various nuclear-spectrometry experiments. Confirmation of the theoretical basis employed was obtained by comparing total absolute probabilities for annihilation in flight of 62 Cu positons in Perspex, copper, cadmium and lead, using a new differential method. The agreement with the theory was found to be excellent. A method for obtaining “correct” posi…
Radiopurity control in the NEXT-100 double beta decay experiment
2013
An extensive material screening and selection process is underway in the construction of the "Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC" (NEXT), intended to investigate neutrinoless double beta decay using a high-pressure xenon gas TPC filled with 100 kg of Xe enriched in 136Xe. Determination of the radiopurity levels of the materials is based on gamma-ray spectroscopy using ultra-low background germanium detectors at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (Spain) and also on Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry. Materials to be used in the shielding, pressure vessel, electroluminescence and high voltage components and energy and tracking readout planes have been already taken into consideration. T…
Structure of N >= 126 nuclei produced in fragmentation of (238)U
2009
The nuclear structure of neutron‐rich N⩾126 nuclei have been investigated following their production via relativistic projectile fragmentation of a E/A = 1 GeV 238U beam on a Be target. The cocktail of secondary beam products were separated and identified using the GSI FRagment Separator (FRS). The nuclei of interest were implanted in a high‐granularity active stopper detector set‐up consisting of 6 double sided silicon strip detectors. The associated gamma‐ray transitions were detected with the RISING array, consisting of 15 Euroball cluster Ge‐detectors. Time‐correlated gamma decays from individually identified nuclear species have been recorded, allowing the clean identification of isome…