The Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD)

A. Wakhle; K. Hammerton; Z. Kohley; J. Yurkon; K. Stiefel

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.05.012

The Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD)

A. Wakhle
, K. Hammerton
, Z. Kohley
, J. Yurkon
, K. Stiefel

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Abstract

A Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) based fission detector system, called the Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD), has been developed for the ReA3 re-accelerator facility of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). Binary reaction kinematics are reconstructed based on position and time-of-flight measurements of fission fragments. Large area PPACs provide 1 ns level time resolution and mm level position resolution. The detectors allow measurements of fission product angular and mass distributions of heavy-ion induced fusion reactions. The 30 cm by 40 cm active area of each PPAC provides large solid angle coverage well suited for measurements of low intensity rare-isotope beams (RIBs).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-11
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	864
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.05.012
State	Published - Aug 21 2017
Externally published	Yes

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of the NSCL Mechanical Engineering and Fabrication Departments that made the construction of the CFFD possible. Helpful discussions with D.J. Morrissey were invaluable, and appreciated. This work was supported by Michigan State University and by the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement PHY-11-002511.

Keywords

Fission detector
Parallel-plate avalanche counter
Position resolution
Radioactive beams
Time resolution

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