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EPSRC Reference:	EP/D501784/1
Title:	EXOGAM Steering Committee
Principal Investigator:	Wadsworth, Professor R
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Department:	Physics
Organisation:	University of York
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 May 2005	Ends:	30 April 2007	Value (£):	1,663
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Nuclear Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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EXOGAM is a large array of state-of-the-art germanium detectors that has been constructed for use primarily with the new generation radioactive beam facilities such as SPIRAL at the GANIL Laboratory, Caen, France. The instrument was designed, built and commissioned in the period 1999-2003 and is currently in use at GANIL to study gamma rays that are emitted in nuclear reactions involving radioactive beam particles and stable target isotopes. The present grant requests travel funds to enable the principle investigator (PI) to take part in the International Steering Committee meetings, which occur twice per year. (The PI is currently the elected Chair of this committee.) The prime functions of the Steering Committee are to effectively manage the detector array resource (which cost 35 MFF to build), to oversee improvements to the operation of the array and to ensure that the resource is utilised in the best possible way so as to maximise the physics output during its lifespan. A current improvement that is presently on-going is the development/ construction of new electronics signal processing cards which will enable pulse shape analysis techniques to be used on the signals obtained from the gremanium detectors. This will help improve the position sensitivity of the detectors, which in turn will help improve the effective resolution and resolving power of the array, and is particularly important when trying to detect gamma rays that are emitted from nuclei which are moving at high recoil velocities.
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