First experiment with the NUSTAR/FAIR Decay Total Absorption Gamma-Ray Spectrometer at the IGISOL IV facility

11 May 2015, 16:31
Center Concourse

Center Concourse

Poster Presentation Poster Session A

Speaker

Mr Víctor Guadilla (Instituto de Física Corpuscular IFIC)

Description

A new Total Absorption Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for beta-decay studies (DTAS) has been developed within the DESPEC experiment of the NUSTAR collaboration [1]. The instrument has been designed [2] to determine accurately the beta-decay intensity distribution for exotic nuclei produced in high-energy reactions, which will be separated and identified by means of the Super Fragment Separator at the future FAIR facility. DTAS has a modular construction with up to 18 large NaI(Tl) detector modules (module dimension: 25cmx15cmx15cm) which can be assembled in a 4pi geometry with little dead material around the AIDA implantation detector, a stack of double sided Si strip-detectors [2]. We have recently performed the first experiment with this setup at the upgraded IGISOL IV (Jyväskylä, Finland) facility. The low energy radioactive beams have been further purified with the JYFLTRAP Penning trap [3]. The experiment aimed to study fission products of relevance in neutrino physics and reactor decay heat time evolution. The measurements allowed us to perform a careful characterization of the detector and to study the overall performance of the setup. The results of this work will be presented, including the performance of the gain stabilization system, the correction of electronic pulse pileup, the sensitivity to neutrons and the calibration of the response of the spectrometer to decay radiation by means of Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations. [1] http://www.fair-center.eu/for-users/experiments/nustar.html [2] http://www.fair-center.eu/for-users/experiments/nustar/nustar-documents/technical-design-reports.html [3] https://www.jyu.fi/fysiikka/en/research/accelerator/igisol

Primary author

Mr Víctor Guadilla (Instituto de Física Corpuscular IFIC)

Co-authors

Mr Abdoul Aziz Zakari-Issoufou (Subatech) Dr Alejandro Algora (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Dr Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL) Dr Amanda Porta (Subatech) Ms Ana Montaner (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Dr Andy Cucoanes (Subatech) Ms Annika Voss (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Anu Kankainen (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Ari Jokinen (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Berta Rubio (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Dr Daniel Cano-Ott (Ciemat) Mr Dimitry Gorelov (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Dolores Jordan (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Ms Ebhelixes Valencia (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Dr Ela Ganioglu (Istanbul University) Dr Enriquer Nacher (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM)) Prof. Heikki Penttila (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Ian Moore (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Ikka Pohjalainen (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Jani Hakala (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Jonathan Wilson (IPNO) Mr Jorge Agramunt (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Dr Jose Antonio Briz Monago (Subatech) Dr Jose L. Tain (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular) Prof. Juho Aysto (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Jukka Koponen (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Juuso Reinikainen (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Luis Mario Fraile (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Dr M Lebois (IPNO) Dr Magali Estienne (Subatech) Mr Mikeal Reponen (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Muriel Fallot (Subatech) Dr Patrick Regan (University of Surrey) Dr Sami Rinta-Antila (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Sonja Orrigo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Mr Tommi Eronen (University of Jyväskylä) Dr Tomooki Shiba (Subatech) Dr Trinitario Martinez (Ciemat) Mr V Eloma (University of Jyväskylä) Mr Veli Kolhinen (University of Jyväskylä) Ms Victoria Vedia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Mr Volker Sonnenschein (University of Jyväskylä) Prof. William Gelletly (University of Surrey) Dr Zsolt Podolyak (University of Surrey)

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