Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2010-03-31
Eur. Phys. J. A 44, 513-519 (2010)
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; as accepted by Eur. Phys. J. A
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2010-10967-1
An escape-suppressed, composite high-purity germanium detector of the Clover type has been installed at the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA) facility, deep underground in the Gran Sasso Laboratory, Italy. The laboratory gamma-ray background of the Clover detector has been studied underground at LUNA and, for comparison, also in an overground laboratory. Spectra have been recorded both for the single segments and for the virtual detector formed by online addition of all four segments. The effect of the escape-suppression shield has been studied as well. Despite their generally higher intrinsic background, escape-suppressed detectors are found to be well suited for underground nuclear astrophysics studies. As an example for the advantage of using a composite detector deep underground, the weak ground state branching of the Ep = 223 keV resonance in the 24Mg(p,gamma)25Al reaction is determined with improved precision.
Alvarez Rossi C.
Bemmerer Daniel
Broggini Carlo
Caciolli Antonio
collaboration LUNA
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