Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Improvement of the intrinsic time resolving power of the Cologne iron-free orange type electron spectrometers

Journal Article · · Review of Scientific Instruments
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3499259· OSTI ID:22062199
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;  [1]
  1. Institut fuer Kernphysik (IKP), Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Str. 77, 50937 Koeln (Germany)
Conversion electron spectroscopy represents an important tool for nuclear structure analysis of medium and heavy nuclei. Two iron-free magnetic electron spectrometers of the orange type have been installed at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of the University of Cologne. The very large transmission of 15% and the very good energy resolution of 1% makes the iron-free orange spectrometer a powerful instrument. By means of fast timing techniques, lifetimes of nuclear excited states can be measured with an accuracy better than 20 ps. For the first time, the energy dependent centroid position of prompt events yielding the time-walk characteristics (the prompt curve) of the orange spectrometer fast timing setup has been measured using prompt secondary {delta}-electrons generated in a pulsed beam experiment. The prompt curve calibrated as a function of energy allows precise lifetime determination down to a few tens of picoseconds by the use of the centroid shift method.
OSTI ID:
22062199
Journal Information:
Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 81; ISSN 0034-6748; ISSN RSINAK
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Nuclear structure analysis using the Orange Spectrometer
Journal Article · Tue Jan 27 23:00:00 EST 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings · OSTI ID:21255391

THE ORANGE BETA-RAY SPECTROMETER AT BROOKHAVEN
Journal Article · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1962 · Bulletin of the American Physical Society (U.S.) · OSTI ID:4688842

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 · Mon Sep 05 20:00:00 EDT 2022 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment · OSTI ID:1898576