DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A LOW-ENERGY PARTICLE-IDENTIFICATION TELESCOPE ARRAY FOR PROTON AND ALPHA-SPECTROSCOPY

Authors
ROWE MW MOLTZ DM BATCHELDER JC OGNIBENE TJ TIGHE RJ CERNY J
Citation
Mw. Rowe et al., DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A LOW-ENERGY PARTICLE-IDENTIFICATION TELESCOPE ARRAY FOR PROTON AND ALPHA-SPECTROSCOPY, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 397(2-3), 1997, pp. 292-303
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
397
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
292 - 303
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1997)397:2-3<292:DACOAL>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Six improved low-energy gas-Delta E/gas-Delta E/Si-E particle-identifi cation telescopes have been incorporated into an array. Calibration ex periments have shown that these telescopes are capable of detecting an d identifying protons with energies as low as similar to 180keV and al pha particles with energies as low as similar to 450keV, even when ope rating in a high-radiation environment. Methods of calibration at very low energies have been developed and tested. A survey of the beta-del ayed proton emitters Mg-21, S-29, (SC)-S-40 and Ti-41 revealed no new intense proton groups at low energies.