Abstract
A focal plane detector has been constructed for detecting fusion residues in a gas-filled Enge split-pole spectrograph. It provides position, timing and energy for particle identification. With a timing channel plate detector in the target chamber, the particle time-of-flight can be measured. This detector system is particularly suitable for studying fusion-evaporation reactions in inverse kinematics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 393-401 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
| Volume | 435 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Oct 11 1999 |
Funding
We would like to thank Dr. K.E. Rehm of the Argonne National Laboratory for many helpful discussions on the gas-filled magnet technique. Fruitful discussions with Dr. J.D. Fox are gratefully acknowledged. We are grateful to the Nuclear Structure Laboratory in the State University of New York at Stony Brook for making the 50 Ti targets. Thanks also go to J. Mas for manufacturing the wire planes of the PSAC and J.W. Johnson and C. Reed for the engineering drawings of the detectors. We wish to thank the accelerator crews for providing the beams and technical help. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Associates Program administrated jointly by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). The ORISE is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC05-760R00033. Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC05-96OR22464 with Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation.