In-flight spectrometers status and new developments

✍ Scribed by Hans Geissel; Gottfried Münzenberg; Helmut Weick

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 121 KB
• Volume: 701
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01594-9

✦ Synopsis

In-flight spectrometers have been successfully used for the investigation of exotic nuclei from low energies near the Coulomb barrier up to the A GeV regime. The in-flight method takes advantage of the reaction kinematics to efficiently separate short-lived nuclei at the limits of stability down to a sensitivity of single atoms. Modern in-flight separators are combined with high-resolution devices such as electromagnetic spectrometers, storage-cooler rings, and ion traps. Atomic interaction in matter is a versatile tool to tailor the phase space of nuclear reaction products for efficient separation in flight.  2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.