1. The use of EXOGAM for in-beam spectroscopy of proton drip-line nuclei with radioactive ion beams
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Petri, M., Paul, E.S., Nolan, P.J., Boston, A.J., Boston, H.C., Cooper, R.J., Dimmock, M.R., Gros, S., McGuirk, B.M., Turk, G., Guinet, D., Lautesse, Ph., Meyer, M., Redon, N., Rossé, B., Schmitt, Ch., Stézowski, O., Bhattacharyya, S., De France, G., and Mukherjee, G.
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RADIOACTIVE nuclear beams , *GAMMA ray spectrometer , *PARTICLE beams , *GERMANIUM diodes , *PROTONS , *NUCLEAR fusion , *RARE earth metals - Abstract
Abstract: One of the first fusion–evaporation experiments using radioactive ion beams was performed at GANIL in order to study proton-rich nuclei of the light rare-earth region. The low production cross-section of the exotic species of interest, in combination with the low intensity of the beam and its induced background, demanded the use of a highly efficient experimental setup. This consisted of the EXOGAM -ray spectrometer coupled for the first time with both the DIAMANT charged-particle array and the VAMOS recoil spectrometer. In this report the experimental challenges of such studies will be discussed and the experimental achievements of the in-beam spectroscopy of proton drip-line nuclei using EXOGAM will be presented. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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