A spectrometer focal plane detector for heavy ions

doi:10.1016/0029-554X(72)90292-3

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Volume 104, Issue 1, 1 October 1972, Pages 21-32

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A resistive-wire position-sensitive proportional transmission counter has been built for the detection of heavy ions in the focal plane of a magnetic spectrometer. The 45 × 6 cm² counter measures position and energy loss with a resolution of 0.7 mm and 8–10% respectively. Time-of-flight is measured with a plastic scintillator behind the proportional counter. The position, time and energy loss signals are used to identify heavy ions with unit mass and atomic number resolution up to about A = 20, Z = 10.

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^☆: Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

^†: Permanent address: Physikalisches Institut, Universität Marburg, Germany.

⁺: Permanent address: CEN, Saclay, France.

^∗∗: Permanent address: Physics Department, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A.

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<sup>16</sup>O, <sup>24, 26</sup>Mg, <sup>28</sup>Si, <sup>32</sup>S, <sup>40</sup>Ca(α, <sup>12</sup>C) and multi-α-cluster transfer reactions

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