• Construction and performance test of charged particle detector array for MATE

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2024-04-28

    摘要: A charged particle array, named MATE-PA, which serves as an auxiliary detec#2;tor system to the Multi-purpose Active-target Time projection chamber for nuclear astrophysical and exotic beam Experiments (MATE) has been con#2;structed. The array is composed of twenty single-sided strip-silicon detectors, covering around 10% of the solid angle. It is dedicated for the detection of reaction-induced charged particles which penetrate the MATE active volume. The performance of MATE-PA has been experimentally studied using an alpha source, and a 36-MeV 14N beam injected into the chamber of MATE, filled with a mixture gas of 95% 4He and 5% CO2 under the pressure of 500 mbar, at the Radioactive Ion Beam Line in Lanzhou (RIBLL). The results demonstrate good separation of light charged particles with the forward double-layer silicon detectors of MATE-PA. The energy resolution of the Si detectors was deduced to be about 1% (σ) for an energy loss of about 10 MeV by the α particles. The inclusion of MATE-PA helps improve particle identification, and increases the dynamic range for the kinetic energy of charged particles, in particular that of α particles up to about 15 MeV.

  • Production of neutron-rich actinide isotopes in isobaric collisions via multinucleon transfer

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-06-20

    摘要: We have calculated the multinucleon transfer reactions of 208Os, 208Pt, 208Hg, 208Pb,208Po, 208Rn, 208Ra,132,136Xe bombarding on 232Th and 248Cm at Coulomb barrier energies within the dinuclear system model, systematically. The results are in good agreement with the available experimental data. The Coulomb effect and shell effect on the production of actinides in these reactions have been investigated thoroughly. Potential energy surface and total kinetic energy mass distributions in the reactions 208Hg, 208Pb and208Po colliding on 248Cm and 232Th are calculated and analyzed, respectively. It is found that PES and TKE spectra manifest the fragment formation mechanism in the multinucleon transfer reactions. The isospin effect and shell effect are shown in PES and TKE. Production cross-sections of multinucleon transfer products are highly dependent on the isobar projectiles with the mass number A = 208. The isobar projectiles with larger N/Z ratios are favorable for creating neutron-rich target-like fragments. The isobar projectiles with larger charge number induced products tend to shift to proton-rich regions. Coulomb potential coupled with the shell effect is shown in production cross-sections of actinide isotopes. Based on the radioactive projectiles induced reactions, we have predicted massive new actinide isotopes around nuclear drip lines, even could access the superheavy nuclei region.