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FALSTAFF: a novel apparatus for fission fragment characterization

FALSTAFF: a novel apparatus for fission fragment characterization

Authors :
Panebianco Stefano
Doré Diane
Farget Fanny
Lecolley François-René
Lehaut Grégory
Materna Thomas
Pancin Julien
Papaevangelou Thomas
Source :
EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 69, p 00021 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, 2014.

Abstract

The study of nuclear fission and in particular the correlation between the produced fragments and the associated neutrons is encountering renewed interest since new models are available on the market and a large set of applications show a rather stringent demand on high quality nuclear data. The future Neutrons For Science installation, being presently built at GANIL (Caen, France) in the framework of the SPIRAL2 project, will produce high intensity neutron beams from hundreds of keV up to 40 MeV. In view of this opportunity, the development of an experimental setup called FALSTAFF (Four Arm cLover for the Study of Actinide Fission Fragments) has been undertaken since 2011. This novel apparatus is meant to provide a full characterization of fission fragments in terms of mass, nuclear charge and kinetic energy. Moreover, it will provide a measurement of the mass before and after neutron evaporation, leading to the determination of the neutron multiplicity as a function of the fragmentation. The FALSTAFF setup is presently in its R&D phase in order to achieve the required specifications, especially in terms of time, space and energy resolution of the different detectors.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
QC1-999

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2100014X and 20136900
Volume :
69
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
EPJ Web of Conferences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.63886cdd7ef4d78871d896634d89f9c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136900021