Journal of Instrumentation · 2011 · 43 citations · 16 references
Natural SciencesNuclear EngineeringPhysicsNuclear InstrumentationNuclear PhysicsSpectroscopyDetector SystemsDetector TechnologyGamma-ray DetectorsGamma-ray SpectroscopyRadiation Detector ArraysRadiation DetectorsDetector ConstructionDetector Energy ResolutionDetectorsGamma-ray SpectrometrySilicon DetectorsSilicon Strip Detector ArraysSilicon Strip DetectorsStrip Detectors
The combination of gamma-ray spectroscopy and charged-particle spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the study of nuclear reactions with beams of nuclei far from stability. This paper presents a new silicon detector array, SHARC, the Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reactions and Coulex. The array is used at the radioactive-ion-beam facility at TRIUMF (Canada), in conjunction with the TIGRESS gamma-ray spectrometer, and is built from custom Si-strip detectors utilising a fully digital readout. SHARC has more than 50% efficiency, approximately 1000-strip segmentation, angular resolutions of Delta theta approximate to 1 : 3 deg and Delta phi approximate to 3.5 deg, 25-30 keV energy resolution, and thresholds of 200 keV for up to 25 MeV particles. SHARC is now complete, and the experimental program in nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure has commenced.
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M. Wiescher, J. Görres, E. Uberseder et al. · Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science · 2010 · 96 citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15