| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K81416/01 |
| Title: |
DEVELOPMENT OF A VERSATILE HIGH EFFICIENCY IMPLANTATION DETECTION SYSTEM FOR RADIOACTIVITY STUDIES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Page, Professor R |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Liverpool |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
19 October 1995 |
Ends: |
18 October 1996 |
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9,988
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Separating exotic reaction products in flight and implanting them into a silicon detector where their decays are measured is an extremely powerful technique. However, in conventional implantation detection systems, proton and *-particle ranges generally exceed implantation depths, so a proportion of these emitted particles escape from the detector without depositing their full energy. Escaping particles represent a loss of detection efficiency and produce a background which obscures lower energy activities. Using a wall of detectors surrounding the perimeter of the implantation detector to detect escaping particles would significantly increase the overall detection efficiency and suppress the background in the implantation detector energy spectrum below the full energy peaks. Hence sensitivity to new decay lines and weak fine structure would be enhanced and background arising from escaping and delayed protons strongly reduced in the critical energy region where direct proton decay lines occur. The new detectors could also be used to detect coincident conversion electrons, x-rays and low energy *-rays, permitting investigations of exotic isotopes which are too short-lived for isotope separator based studies. This development would therefore represent a significant enhancement of the sensitivity and versatility of implantation detection systems which will play a crucial role in future research with a radioactive beam.
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