18-20 March 2019
J Block
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Plans for the new K600 focal plane detector

20 Mar 2019, 09:00
30m
Auditorium (J Block)

Auditorium

J Block

Old Faure Road, Faure
Oral Nuclear Structure Studies Nuclear Structure Studies

Speaker

Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)

Description

A new position sensitive detector system for the focal plane of the K600 magnetic spectrometer is currently being developed. The existing focal plane detectors (FPDs) were designed to detect Z≤2 ions with kinetic energies 30 MeV/u or higher. A new low-pressure gas-filled tracker combined with a stopping scintillator detector is required to allow for the efficient detection of heavier particles (Z>2) over a range of kinetic energies, as well as light particles (Z≤2) at lower kinetic energies (<30 MeV/u). The different physics cases currently envisaged that require the low- pressure gas-filled detector will be reviewed, and an overview of the design of the new FPD will be presented.

Primary authors

Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS) Dr Philip Adsley (iThemba LABS/Wits) Luna Pellegri (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS) Ricky Smit (iThemba LABS) thuthukile khumalo (iThemba LABS) Karl van Niekerk (iThemba LABS / Stellenbosch University)

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