Breakup of loosely bound nuclei at intermediate energies for nuclear astrophysics and the development of a position sensitive microstrip detector system and its readout electronics using ASICs technologies
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
- Texas A & M Univ., Commerce, TX (United States)
The work performed under this grant has led to the development of a detection system that will be used to measure reaction rates for proton or neutron capture reactions at stellar energies on radioactive ions far from stability. The reaction rates are needed to better understand the physics of nucleosynthesis in explosive stellar processes such as supernovae and x-ray burst events. The radioactive ions will be produced at the Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (RIBF) at RIKEN near Tokyo, Japan. During the course of this work, the group involved in this project has expanded by several institutions in Europe and Japan and now involves collaborators from the U.S., Japan, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, and South Korea. As part of the project, a novel design based on large-area silicon detectors has been built and tested and the performance characterized in a series of tests using particle beams with a variety of atomic numbers at the Cyclotron Institute of Texas A&M University and the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba facility (HIMAC) in Chiba, Japan. The work has involved mechanical construction of a special purpose vacuum chamber, with a precision mounting system for the silicon detectors, development of a new ASICs readout system that has applications with a wide variety of silicon detector systems, and the development of a data acquisition system that is integrated into the computer system being used at RIBF. The parts noted above that are needed to carry out the research program are completed and ready for installation. Several approved experiments that will use this system will be carried out in the near future. The experimental work has been delayed due to a large increase in the cost and availability of electrical power for RIBF that occurred following the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in the spring of 2011. Another component of the research carried out with this grant involved developing the theoretical tools that are required to extract the information from the experiments that is needed to determine the stellar reaction rates. The tools developed through this part of the work will be made freely available for general use.
- Research Organization:
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0004972
- OSTI ID:
- 1233442
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-TAMU-0004972
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: M. F. Jager, R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, M. H. Mahzoon, L. G. Sobotka, M. McCleskey, R. G. Pizzone, B. T. Roeder, A. Spiridon, E. Simmons, L. Trache, and M. Kurokawa, “Two-proton decay of 12O and its isobaric analog state in 12N”, Phys. Rev. C 86, 011304(R) (2012), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.86.011304 L. G. Sobotka, W. W. Buhro, R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, M. F. Jager, J. Manfredi, M. H. Mahzoon, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, V. Eremenko, M. McCleskey, R. G. Pizzone, B. T. Roeder, A. Spiridon, E. Simmons, L. Trache, M. Kurokawa, and P. Navrátil, “Proton decay of excited states in 12N and 13O and the astrophysical 11C(p,γ)12N reaction rate”, Phys. Rev. C 87, 054329 (2013), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.87.054329 M. Karakoc, A. Banu, C. A. Bertulani, L. Trache, “Coulomb distortion and medium corrections in nucleon-removal reactions”, Phys. Rev. C 87, 024607 (2013), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.87.024607 M. Karakoc and C. A. Bertulani, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 420, 012074 (2013), DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/420/1/012074 B. Chen, F. Sammarruca and C.A. Bertulani, “Microscopic in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections with improved Pauli blocking effects”, Phys. Rev. C 87, 054616 (2013), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.87.054616 A. Saastamoinen, H. Baba, J. C. Blackmon, J. Elson, M. Kurokawa, M. McCleskey, H. Otsu, B. C. Rasco, B. T. Roeder, L. G. Sobotka, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, K. Yoneda, J. Zenihiro, “Development of a Position Sensitive Microstrip Detector System and its Readout Electronics Using ASICs Technologies for SAMURAI”, JPS Conf. Proc. 6, 030131 (2015), DOI:10.7566/JPSCP.6.030131
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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