The Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD)

A Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) based fission detector system, called the Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD), has been developed for the ReA3 re-accelerator facility of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). Binary reaction kinematics are reconstructed based on...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2017-08, Vol.864, p.7-11
Main Authors: Wakhle, A., Hammerton, K., Kohley, Z., Yurkon, J., Stiefel, K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fission detector
Parallel-plate avalanche counter
Position resolution
Radioactive beams
Time resolution
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Summary:A Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) based fission detector system, called the Coincident Fission Fragment Detector (CFFD), has been developed for the ReA3 re-accelerator facility of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). Binary reaction kinematics are reconstructed based on position and time-of-flight measurements of fission fragments. Large area PPACs provide 1ns level time resolution and mm level position resolution. The detectors allow measurements of fission product angular and mass distributions of heavy-ion induced fusion reactions. The 30cm by 40cm active area of each PPAC provides large solid angle coverage well suited for measurements of low intensity rare-isotope beams (RIBs).
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2017.05.012