Exposure of Nuclear Track Emulsion to He-8 Nuclei at the ACCULINNA Separator

Authors :: V. Bradnova
K. Z. Mamatkulov
N. K. Kornegrutsa
R. Stanoeva
S. V. Stepantsov
G. Kaminski
P. I. Zarubin
A. S. Fomichev
V. Chudoba
V. V. Rusakova
A. V. Gorshkov
A. A. Bezbakh
D. A. Artemenkov
R. S. Slepnev
I. G. Zarubina
R. R. Kattabekov
M. S. Golovkov
S. A. Krupko
Publication Year :: 2013
Abstract: Nuclear track emulsion is exposed to a beam of radioactive $^8$He nuclei with an energy of 60 MeV and enrichment of about 80% at the ACCULINNA separator. Measurements of 278 decays of the $^8$He nuclei stopped in the emulsion allow the potential of the $\alpha$ spectrometry to be estimated and the thermal drift of $^8$He atoms in matter to be observed for the first time.<br />Comment: ISSN 1547-4771. 7 pages, 13 figures