New Results with TECSA
Abstract
The Texas A&M-Edinburgh-Catania Silicon detector Array (TECSA) is a collaborative effort to build a high-efficiency detector Si array useful for measuring reactions of interest for nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure. The array consists of up to 16 Micron Semiconductor YY1 detectors that are each 300 μm thick. Each detector has 16 annular ring sectors to measure the energy and the scattering angle of the detected particles. So far, we have conducted two experiments with TECSA at Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M Univ. In the first, we measured the d(^14C,p)^15C reaction at 11.7 MeV/u. In the second, we measured d(^26Al,p)^27Al with an ^26Al secondary beam prepared in-flight with MARS. Angular distributions were obtained for both reactions at backward angles. The protons were measured both as singles events and in coincidence with timing signals from the cyclotron RF and a scintillator to measure coincidence between the protons and the beam. Results of the data analysis for the d(^14C,p)^15C run and preliminary results from the d(^26Al,p)^27Al run will be presented. Also, prospects for the future use of this detector array will be discussed.[0pt] ^*Work supported by US DOE, INFN and STFC (UK).
- Publication:
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APS Texas Sections Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011APS..TSF.D1005R