The Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (JENSA) gas jet target

K. A. Chipps; U. Greife; D. W. Bardayan; J. C. Blackmon; A. Kontos; L. E. Linhardt; M. Matos; S. D. Pain; S. T. Pittman; A. Sachs; H. Schatz; K. T. Schmitt; M. S. Smith; P. Thompson

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The Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (JENSA) gas jet target

K. A. Chipps, U. Greife, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, A. Kontos, L. E. Linhardt, M. Matos, S. D. Pain, S. T. Pittman, A. Sachs, H. Schatz, K. T. Schmitt, M. S. Smith, P. Thompson

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Abstract

New radioactive ion beam (RIB) facilities will push further away from stability and enable the next generation of nuclear physics experiments. Of great importance to the future of RIB physics are scattering, transfer, and capture reaction measurements of rare, exotic, and unstable nuclei on light targets such as hydrogen and helium. These measurements require targets that are dense, highly localized, and pure. Targets must also accommodate the use of large area silicon detector arrays, high-efficiency gamma arrays, and heavy ion detector systems to efficiently measure the reaction products. To address these issues, the Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (JENSA) Collaboration has designed, built, and characterized a supersonic gas jet target, capable of providing gas areal densities on par with commonly used solid targets within a region of a few millimeters diameter. Densities of over 5×10¹⁸ atoms/cm² of helium have been achieved, making the JENSA gas jet target the most dense helium jet achieved so far.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	553-564
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	763
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.06.042
State	Published - Nov 1 2014

Funding

The authors wish to thank Devin Connolly at the Colorado School of Mines for producing the camera-ready CAD images for Figs. 1–3 . This work is supported by the US DOE Office of Nuclear Physics (Colorado School of Mines grants DE-FG02-10ER41704 and DE-FG02-93ER40789 ) and the NSF .

Funders	Funder number
US DOE Office of Nuclear Physics
National Science Foundation	1430152
Colorado School of Mines	DE-FG02-93ER40789, DE-FG02-10ER41704

Keywords

Capture reactions
Gas jet target
Radioactive ion beams
Transfer reactions

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Chipps, K. A., Greife, U., Bardayan, D. W., Blackmon, J. C., Kontos, A., Linhardt, L. E., Matos, M., Pain, S. D., Pittman, S. T., Sachs, A., Schatz, H., Schmitt, K. T., Smith, M. S., & Thompson, P. (2014). The Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (JENSA) gas jet target. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 763, 553-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.06.042

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