Development of the multi-purpose Cologne Compact Differential Plunger (CoCoDiff) for the measurement of nuclear level lifetimes with the Recoil Distance Doppler-shift method

Beckers, M.; Dewald, A.; Fransen, C.; Arnswald, K.; Müller-Gatermann, C.; von Spee, F.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167418

Development of the multi-purpose Cologne Compact Differential Plunger (CoCoDiff) for the measurement of nuclear level lifetimes with the Recoil Distance Doppler-shift method

Journal Article · Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167418· OSTI ID:1898576

^[1]; Dewald, A. ^[1]; Fransen, C. ^[1]; Arnswald, K. ^[1]; ^[2]; von Spee, F. ^[1]

Univ. of Cologne (Germany)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Here, a new 3-foil plunger device, the Cologne Compact Differential (CoCoDiff) plunger has been built and commissioned. Due to its compact size, it can be used together with many different spectrometers and auxiliary detectors. As a commissioning experiment, level lifetimes of the $$2^{+}_{1}$$ and the $$4^{+}_{1}$$ excited states of ⁵⁰Cr have been measured, using the Differential Decay Curve method (DDCM). A derivation is given on how this method can be applied to a differential plunger measurement, in order to measure distances for lifetimes from two different regions of sensitivity at the same time. The commissioning experiment took place at the Cologne FN tandem accelerator, using the reaction ²⁴Mg(³²S,4p2n)⁵⁰Cr. Lifetimes, deduced from this measurement, agree well with literature values from earlier measurements.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1898576

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol. 1042; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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