Wide aperture kinematic separator COMBAS realized on the strong focusing principle

The COMBAS large solid angle and high momentum acceptance and high-resolving kinematic separator has been created at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, to efficiently collect extremely short-lived nuclei near the zero angle which are produced in intermediate energy fragmentation reactions with wide momentum and wide angular distributions. For the first time the M 1 M 2 M 3 M 4 F d M 5 M 6 M 7 M 8 F a magneto-optical configuration of the COMBAS separator has been realized on the strong focussing principle. The separation and trajectory analysis of particles by the separator are carried out by three parameters: the magnetic rigidity (B· ρ ), the energy loss difference in the degrader (Δ E /Δ x ) and the time-of-flight (Δ T ) of the analyzed particles. The COMBAS separator can be used efficiently both in the mode of a high- resolving spectrometer to study reaction mechanisms and in the mode of an in-flight separator in experiments on the synthesis and study of properties of short-lived exotic nuclei near the drip-lines.