TY - JOUR
T1 - The DRAGON facility for nuclear astrophysics at TRIUMF-ISAC
T2 - Design, construction and operation
AU - Hutcheon, D. A.
AU - Bishop, S.
AU - Buchmann, L.
AU - Chatterjee, M. L.
AU - Chen, A. A.
AU - D'Auria, J. M.
AU - Engel, S.
AU - Gigliotti, D.
AU - Greife, U.
AU - Hunter, D.
AU - Hussein, A.
AU - Jewett, C. C.
AU - Khan, N.
AU - Lamey, M.
AU - Laird, A. M.
AU - Liu, W.
AU - Olin, A.
AU - Ottewell, D.
AU - Rogers, J. G.
AU - Roy, G.
AU - Sprenger, H.
AU - Wrede, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The financial support received from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from TRIUMF is also gratefully acknowledged. Author U.G. was supported by a Department of Energy grant (DE-FG03-93ER40789). Author S.E. wishes to acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG GR 1577-301). Support by a U.S. DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-91ER-40609 is also acknowledged.
PY - 2003/2/11
Y1 - 2003/2/11
N2 - A facility for measuring cross-sections (resonance strengths) for reactions of astrophysical importance involving short-lived, radioactive reactants has been designed, built and installed at the new TRIUMF-ISAC Radioactive Beams Laboratory in Canada. Named DRAGON (Detector of Recoils And Gamma-rays of Nuclear reactions), it has been successfully commissioned with stable and radioactive heavy ion beams from ISAC. This report presents the main components of the facility, namely, the windowless gas target, the surrounding γ detector array, the subsequent electromagnetic recoil mass separator, the focal plane detectors for recoils, the detection system for elastics, and the modular electronics and computer software used for the data acquisition. Examples of the operation of the facility for both stable beam reactions and the first radioactive beam reaction study, 21Na(p,γ)22Mg are also presented, along with future plans for the program.
AB - A facility for measuring cross-sections (resonance strengths) for reactions of astrophysical importance involving short-lived, radioactive reactants has been designed, built and installed at the new TRIUMF-ISAC Radioactive Beams Laboratory in Canada. Named DRAGON (Detector of Recoils And Gamma-rays of Nuclear reactions), it has been successfully commissioned with stable and radioactive heavy ion beams from ISAC. This report presents the main components of the facility, namely, the windowless gas target, the surrounding γ detector array, the subsequent electromagnetic recoil mass separator, the focal plane detectors for recoils, the detection system for elastics, and the modular electronics and computer software used for the data acquisition. Examples of the operation of the facility for both stable beam reactions and the first radioactive beam reaction study, 21Na(p,γ)22Mg are also presented, along with future plans for the program.
KW - Detectors
KW - Electric and magnetic devices
KW - Nuclear reactions
KW - Recoil mass separator
KW - Windowless gas target system
KW - γ detector array
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U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01990-3
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01990-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037431976
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 498
SP - 190
EP - 210
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 1-3
ER -