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OSCAR: A new modular device for the identification and correlation of low energy particles
- Source :
- Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, 2018, 877, pp.227-237. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.046⟩, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Elsevier, 2018, 877, pp.227-237. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.046⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- A new modular and high versatility hodoscope , OSCAR, has been developed and characterized. The aim of this hodoscope is to work as an ancillary detector of present large acceptance heavy ion detectors in specific angular regions where low thresholds and high granularities are needed. We discuss the capabilities of OSCAR in the Δ E–E identification of very low energy light particles, providing a precise map of the thickness uniformity of the Δ E (SSSSD, 20 μ m ) stage and showing how the thickness gradient affects the identification of particles. Energy spectra of light identified particles produced in Ca+Ca collisions at 35 AMeV are used to investigate isospin transport phenomena involving the emission of low energy particles from the quasi-target (QT) source in semi-peripheral nuclear collisions. The possibility to explore particle–particle correlations are also discussed.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Work (thermodynamics)
Photon
Nuclear physics detectors
particle identification
thin silicon detectors
01 natural sciences
Spectral line
ion channeling
Nuclear physics
Modular detectors
Hodoscope
0103 physical sciences
Isospin dynamics
Thin silicon detectors
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
010306 general physics
Nuclear Experiment
Instrumentation
silicon uniformity
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Nuclear and High Energy Physic
Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Detector
Low identification thresholds
Modular detector
Isospin
modular detectors
Ion channeling
Low identification threshold
low identification thresholds
Silicon uniformity
isospin dynamics
Transport phenomena
Isospin dynamic
Energy (signal processing)
Thin silicon detector
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, 2018, 877, pp.227-237. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.046⟩, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Elsevier, 2018, 877, pp.227-237. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.046⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e98c5a83a3cab321941bcbf355146bad