A solenoidal transport system for transfer reactions in inverse kinematics
Abstract
The utility of few nucleon transfer reactions for the study of nuclear structure is well known. Reactions such as (d,p), (α,t) and (^3He,d) will be among the earliest to be carried out at the Rare Isotope Accelerator RIA, to study the structure of a new domain of nuclides. These reactions will have to be performed in `inverse kinematics', with heavy beams incident on light targets, thus posing new experimental challenges. A method that has significant advantages over conventional approaches utilizes a large-bore, high-field solenoid with uniform magnetic field as a transport device. In this approach, particles produced in a target located on the solenoid axis are transported to a cylindrical detector also on the axis. This method offers improved efficiency, particle identification capabilities, and resolution, as compared to a conventional large array of segmented solid-state detectors. Simulations of the response of such an arrangement for the benchmark d(^132Sn,p)^133Sn reaction will be discussed. This work is supported in part by the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. W-31-109-ENG38.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003APS..DNP.CF002W