Recoil spectrometers for heavy-ion identification and secondary-beam production: pushing the low-energy limit

Details Recoil spectrometers for heavy-ion identification and secondary-beam production: pushing the low-energy limit Recoil spectrometers for heavy-ion identification and secondary-beam production: pushing the low-energy limit

2004-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0412039v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A548 (2005) 517-539

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nima.2005.04.073

The feasibility of low-energy fragmentation experiments using a magnetic spectrometer is discussed. The main challenge is the multiplicity of the ionic charge states, which can hamper the identification in both Z and A of the fragments. Three topics are covered. First, a specific set-up for ionization chambers, based on a very large gas thickness, is presented. Its satisfactory performances are discussed in light of the observations during a 500A MeV Pb+p experiment performed at the FRS (GSI). As a second topic, the possibility to use a thick layer of matter (a degrader) as a passive measurement device to identify the nuclear charge and the ionic charge state of fragments is discussed. This method, successfully used for Z identification in experiments such as Pb+p at 1A GeV, fails to measure the charge states at 500A MeV for the same system. It is shown that surface defects of the degrader are probably responsible for this failure. The third topic is the description of new analysis techniques developed in order to account for and subtract the contribution of polluting charge states in the spectrometer, thus making possible a clean estimation of the production cross sections of all fragments. The combination of those new experimental and analysis techniques made the 500A MeV spallation experiment a success.

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