1. A transmission time-of-flight system for particle identification at a recoil mass separator at low energies
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Vockenhuber, C., Erikson, L.E., Buchmann, L., Greife, U., Hager, U., Hutcheon, D.A., Lamey, M., Machule, P., Ottewell, D., Ruiz, C., and Ruprecht, G.
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TIME-of-flight mass spectrometry , *MASS spectrometers , *DRAGON project , *NUCLEAR facilities , *PHYSICAL measurements , *HEAVY ions - Abstract
Abstract: A new time-of-flight (TOF) system has been installed at the recoil mass separator DRAGON at the radioactive beam facility TRIUMF-ISAC in Vancouver, Canada. The addition of a velocity measurement to the existing energy measurement provides an effective separation of heavy ion reaction particles from remaining beam particles reaching the end detector, especially at low beam energies of interest to nuclear astrophysics research. The TOF detector system is based on two electrostatic mirrors equipped with thin carbon foils as a secondary electron emitter, and micro-channel plates for a fast timing signal. The system has been commissioned with stable , and beams in the energy range from 200 to . [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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