Abstract
A study of the response of three ΔE-E telescopes to fragments produced in nuclear interactions at 40AMeV is presented. All the employed telescopes feature silicon carbide (SiC) detectors for at least one detection stage. Two identification methods have been used and their performance discussed: the ΔE-E technique and the Pulse Shape Analysis technique (for identification of nuclear fragments stopped in a single SiC layer). Identification capabilities similar to those obtained with the best available silicon detectors have been found for the SiC detector prototypes studied in this work.
Highlights
The use of silicon detectors as high resolution charged particle detectors is widespread in nuclear physics [1,2,3,4,5]
The aim of the experiment reported in this paper is to verify the performance of the first prototypes produced by SiCILIA, by detecting and identifying heavy 45 nuclear fragments produced over a large range of charges, masses and energies, like the one we expect in an actual physics experiment
The results presented in this paper show that the achieved identification capabilities almost reach those obtained from the best available silicon detectors as, e.g., those of 50 the FAZIA apparatus
Summary
The use of silicon detectors as high resolution charged particle detectors is widespread in nuclear physics [1,2,3,4,5]. Some of them were mounted in telescope configuration and used to detect nuclear fragments, in order to test their identification capabilities both with the ∆E-E and the Pulse Shape Analysis (PSA). The aim of the experiment reported in this paper is to verify the performance of the first prototypes produced by SiCILIA, by detecting and identifying heavy 45 nuclear fragments produced over a large range of charges, masses and energies, like the one we expect in an actual physics experiment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that SiC detectors are used for this application.
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