Stopping power of fission fragments in thin Mylar and nickel foils

Abstract

The energy loss of heavy ions in thin Mylar and nickel foils was measured accurately using fission fragments from 239Pu(nth,f), mass and energy separated by the Lohengrin separator at ILL. The detection setup, placed at the focal plane of the Lohengrin separator enabled to measure precisely the kinetic energy difference of selected fragments after passing through the sample. From these data, the stopping powers in Mylar and nickel layers were extracted and compared to calculations. Whereas large deviations are observed with SRIM-2013 for Mylar, fairly good agreements are obtained with the semi-empirical approach of Knyazheva et al. (2006) and the calculations contained within the DPASS database. In nickel, SRIM-2013 and Knyazheva model are in agreement with our data within about 10%, while large deviations are observed with DPASS. We used our data to provide updated parameters for the Knyazheva model and rescale DPASS database for nickel and Mylar.