| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8172115 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2015 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A new Recoil Transfer Chamber (RTC) has been designed, fabricated, and characterized at the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University. The design is based on a gas stopper that was previously in routine use at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. This new RTC uses He gas to stop ions, and a combination of a static electric field and gas flow to maximize the extraction efficiency. In offline experiments, a 228Th source was used to produce 216Po which was successfully extracted even though it has a short half-life. In online experiments using the products of the 118Sn(40Ar, 6n)152Er reaction, an efficiency of several tens of percent was measured.
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Authors
M.C. Alfonso, E.E. Tereshatov, M.J. DeVanzo, J.A. Sefcik, M.E. Bennett, D.A. Mayorov, T.A. Werke, C.M. III,