1. A Helium Gas-Scintillator Active Target for Photoreaction Measurements
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Jebali, R. Al, Annand, J. R. M., Adler, J. -O., Akkurt, I., Buchanan, E., Brudvik, J., Fissum, K., Gardner, S., Hamilton, D. J., Hansen, K., Isaksson, L., Livingston, K., Lundin, M., McGeorge, J. C., MacGregor, I. J. D., MacRae, R., Middleton, D. G., Reiter, A. J. H., Rosner, G., Schröder, B., Sjögren, J., Sokhan, D., and Strandberg, B.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
A multi-cell He gas-scintillator active target, designed for the measurement of photoreaction cross sections, is described. The target has four main chambers, giving an overall thickness of 0.103 $\mathrm{g/cm^{2}}$ at an operating pressure of 2 MPa. Scintillations are read out by photomultiplier tubes and the addition of small amounts of $\mathrm{N}_{2}$ to the He, to shift the scintillation emission from UV to visible, is discussed. First results of measurements at the MAX IV Laboratory tagged-photon facility show that the target has good timing resolution and can cope well with a high-flux photon beam. The determination of reaction cross sections from target yields relies on a Monte Carlo simulation, which considers scintillation light transport, photodisintegration processes in $^{4}\mathrm{He}$, background photon interactions in target windows and interactions of the reaction-product particles in the gas and target container. The predictions of this simulation are compared to the measured target response., Comment: 24 pages, 15 figures
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- 2015