| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M49489/01 |
| Title: |
DIGITAL PULSE PROCESSING AND GAMMA RAY TRACKING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Warner, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Technology |
| Organisation: |
STFC Laboratories (Grouped) |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
06 April 1999 |
Ends: |
05 April 2003 |
Value (£): |
486,251
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
Nuclear Structure |
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| Electronics |
Environment |
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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The primary aims of this proposal will be to complete the design, construction of a novel prototype detector capable of tracking gamma-rays in three dimensions and to exploit this unique capability in a study of collective structure at the extremes of the nuclear chart. These aims will be realised by combining two emerging, state-of-the-art techniques, the segmentation of large Germanium gamma-ray detectors and the exploitation of high resolution digital processing techniques for processing the data from these segmented detectors. New software algorithms will also be developed to reconstruct gamma tracks in such a way as to be able to take full advantage of the new positional information generated from the detector segmentation and the positional determination electronics. The new instrument will be utilised in a series of Coulomb excitation studies using relativistic, radioactive beams produced by projectile fragmentation to explore low-lying collective states in nuclei at the very limits of nuclear existence. Such studies are only made feasible by the proposed new detector, due to the very large Doppler broadening effects which would occur without the tracking capability.
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