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Next-generation experiments with the Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC)
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 954:161341
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- The Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) project at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) is a novel Active Target designed to study nuclear reactions induced by low-intensity exotic beams. The AT-TPC acts as a tracking medium and target at the same time, providing excellent angular (1 ° ) and energy resolution (3% FWHM) and high luminosity . The AT-TPC offers a broad range of applications within the low-energy nuclear physics domain. Resonant scattering and transfer reactions are typically performed with Active Targets using beams with energies spanning from 1 to 10 A MeV and with intensities as low as 100 pps. The AT-TPC is also a promising tool for experiments where the observables of interest require higher beam energies (above 100 A MeV ). In particular, inelastic scattering reactions on light targets, where the recoil particle has a very low kinetic energy (less than 1 MeV), can be performed with such a device. In this work, we discuss aspects of the AT-TPC experimental program, focusing on experiments that leverage the outstanding capabilities this detector offers. In addition, we introduce a conceptual design for a new Time Projection Chamber detector for specific measurements of reactions using special gases as targets.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear reaction
Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Time projection chamber
Luminosity (scattering theory)
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Detector
Inelastic scattering
Tracking (particle physics)
01 natural sciences
Nuclear physics
Recoil
0103 physical sciences
Nuclear Experiment
010306 general physics
Instrumentation
Beam (structure)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Volume :
- 954
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cb452ed7e8e77ff5346416b42e9b50fd