The Yale Rochester Array for SpecTroscopy, YRAST Ball, is described. Contai
ning up to 30 Compton suppressed Ge detectors YRAST Ball is a powerful new
array for gamma-ray spectroscopy. Several of its auxiliary detectors, inclu
ding a multi-element solar cell array for heavy charged fragment detection
and a neu state of the art plunger system for recoil distance measurements
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