Development of detection systems for low-energy heavy ions at DRAGON

✍ Scribed by Sabine Engel; S. Bishop; A. Chen; C. Dale; J.M. D'Auria; U. Giesen; U. Greife; R. Henderson; D. Hunter; D. Hutcheon; R. Openshaw; J. Rogers; C. Rolfs; A. Shotter

• Book ID: 104335358
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 29 KB
• Volume: 701
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01580-9

✦ Synopsis

The new DRAGON facility at TRIUMF is designed to measure alpha and proton capture reactions with radioactive ion beams in inverse kinematics. For nucleo-synthesis in astrophysical scenarios, the relevant energies lie in the 0.15-1 MeV/u range, where very low cross sections are expected. Therefore the separation of the recoil products from the beam particles will be a difficult task. This paper focuses on the end detectors, which will be used to distinguish recoils from beam particles at the end of the DRAGON separator.