Lifetime measurements using a plunger device and the EUCLIDES Si array at the GALILEO $\gamma$-ray spectrometer

Autor: S. Bakes, S. M. Lenzi, P. R. John, Yu. G. Sobolev, Suzana Szilner, G. Pasqualato, J. J. Valiente-Dobón, A. Gozzelino, F. Galtarossa, H. Liu, D. Testov, C. Müller-Gatermann, M. Rocchini, J. Bradbury, F. Recchia, G. Jaworski, K. Hadyńska-Klȩk, D. R. Napoli, M. Doncel, S. Riccetto, B. Saygi, A. Mentana, J. A. Dueñas, A. Goasduff, G. de Angelis, D. Bazzacco, A. Boso, F. Didierjean, P. Čolović, Bo Cederwall, R. Menegazzo, S. Lunardi, M. Siciliano, C. Boiano, Magda Cicerchia, D. Mengoni, G. Colucci
Přispěvatelé: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ege Üniversitesi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, 2020, 979, pp.164345. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2020.164345⟩
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2020.164345⟩
Popis: The GALILEO ?-ray spectrometer, installed at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), benefits from intense stable beams provided by the Tandem-ALPI-PIAVE accelerator complex and from radioactive beams to be delivered in the near future by the SPES facility. The spectrometer is complemented with a variety of ancillary devices to allow for nuclear structure and reaction studies. The 4? Si-ball array EUCLIDES coupled to the GALILEO ?-ray spectrometer represents one of the commonly used setup for experiments aiming at spectroscopic studies. High-efficiency detection of light-charged particles in a fusion–evaporation reaction guarantees good discrimination of different reaction channels and provides essential information for the kinematic reconstruction. In this paper we discuss a configuration of the EUCLIDES array developed for the lifetime measurements of nuclear excited states populated in a fusion–evaporation reaction. In such a configuration a part of the EUCLIDES detectors is disassembled allowing for the installation of a plunger device in the reaction chamber. The reduced configuration of EUCLIDES provides high detection efficiency necessary for reliable light charged-particle discrimination. We report on the commissioning experiment focused on the 58Ni(58Ni,3p)113I reaction. The lifetimes of 11/2? and 15/2? states were measured by applying the Recoil Distance Doppler Shift method to be equal to 206(20) ps and 7.9(12) ps correspondingly and were in good agreement with the values cited in the literature. Thus, the combination of the GALILEO and EUCLIDES arrays, and the plunger device has resulted in a powerful experimental setup to determine lifetimes of excited states in neutron-deficient nuclei in the picosecond range. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN: 2017/25/B/ST2/01569 Narodowym Centrum Nauki, NCN
The authors would like to thank the technical staff of the LNL-INFN facility for their assistance in providing excellent operation of the XTU-Tandem accelerator. The authors wish to acknowledge the support of local engineers P. Cocconi and R. Isocrate. The work of G. Jaworski was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN) (grant no. 2017/25/B/ST2/01569 ). A. Goasduff acknowledges the support of the CARIPARO foundation under the Starting Grant 2017 .
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