The HELIOS spectrometer and the radioactive beam program at argonne
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2010
Abstract
The near-term radioactive beam capabilities of ATLAS include radioactive beams produced in flight in a gas cell, or starting in the fall of 2009, re-accelerated beams of 252Cf fission fragments provided by the new CARIBU injector. The availability of such exotic beams will allow for detailed studies of the single-particle aspects of nuclear structure in neutron-rich nuclei reaching out to the astrophysical r-process path by employing light-ion reactions in inverse kinematics. The HELIOS spectrometer is based on a new concept that is especially well suited for such studies. This concept was recently demonstrated using the reactions D(28Si,p)29Si with a (stable) 168 MeV 28Si beam. Since then D(12B,p) 13B, D(17O,p)18O, and D(15C,p) 16C have been studied successfully. The combination of neutron-rich beams from CARIBU and the HELIOS spectrometer opens a fertile research area of precision studies of the single particle strengths and collective excitations in exotic nuclei, and is likely to have applications in other reactions as well. © 2010 World Scientific Publishing Company.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
International Journal of Modern Physics E
First Page
825
Last Page
836
Recommended Citation
Back, B., Back, B., Antler, N., Baker, S., Hoffman, C., Clark, J., Deibel, C., Digiovine, B., Freeman, S., Goodman, N., Grelewicz, Z., Heimsath, S., Kay, B., Lee, H., Lister, C., Marley, S., Mueller, P., Pardo, R., Rehm, K., Rohrer, J., Schiffer, J., Snyder, J., Syrion, M., Lighthall, J., Vann, A., Winkelbauer, J., Woodard, A., Shetty, D., & Wuosmaa, A. (2010). The HELIOS spectrometer and the radioactive beam program at argonne. International Journal of Modern Physics E, 19 (5-6), 825-836. https://doi.org/10.1142/S021830131001528X