Coulomb dissociation of 16O into 4He and 12C

Kathrin Göbel*, Michael Heil, Lukas Bott, Leonard Brandenburg, Christoph Caesar, Isabell Deuter, Alexander Grein, Aleksandra Keliç-Heil, Daniel Körper, Bastian Löher, René Reifarth, Deniz Savran, Hendrik Schulte, Haik Simon, Hans Törnqvist, Tahani Almusidi, Héctor Álvarez-Pol, Liam Atkins, Thomas Aumann, Daniel BemmererJosé Benlliure, Konstanze Boretzky, Benjamin Brückner, Pablo Cabanelas Eiras, Enrique Casarejos, Joakim Cederkall, Leonid Chulkov, Dolores Cortina-Gil, Rey Danilov, Philipp Erbacher, Sonia Escribano Rodriguez, Zsolt Fülöp, Ashton Falduto, Stefan Fiebiger, Igor Gašparic, Maria José Garcia Borge, Roman Gernhäuser, Jan Glorius, David Gonzales Caamao, Anna Lena Hartig, Tanja Heftrich, Henning Heggen, Marcel Heine, Reas Heinz, Thomas Hensel, Matthias Holl, Hakan T. Johansson, Björn Jonson, Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki, Armel Kamenyero, Kafa Khasawneh, Oleg Kiselev, Philipp Klenze, Marvin Kohls, Thorsten Kröll, Dmytro Kresan, Deniz Kurtulgil, Nikolaus Kurz, Christoph Langer, Christopher Lehr, Yuri Litvinov, Enis Lorenz, Silvia Murillo Morales, Enrique Nacher, Thomas Nilsson, Joochun Park, Stefanos Paschalis, Angel Perea, Marina Petri, Ralf Plag, Lukas Ponnath, Romana Popocovski, Markus Reich, Han Bum Rhee, Jose Luis Rodriguez Sanchez, Dominic Rossi, Heiko Scheit, Konrad Schmidt, Zuzana Slavkovsk, Viktor Starostin, Sonja Storck, Christian Sürder, Junki Tanaka, Olof Tengblad, Benedikt Thomas, Stefan Typel, Lszló Varga, Klaus Volk, Meiko Volknandt, Vadim Wagner, Felix Wamers, Mario Weigand, Lorenzo Zanetti

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Abstract

We measured the Coulomb dissociation of 16O into 4He and 12C at the R3B setup in a first campaign within FAIR Phase 0 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt. The goal was to improve the accuracy of the experimental data for the 12C(a,?)16O fusion reaction and to reach lower center-ofmass energies than measured so far. The experiment required beam intensities of 109 16O ions per second at an energy of 500 MeV/nucleon. The rare case of Coulomb breakup into 12C and 4He posed another challenge: The magnetic rigidities of the particles are so close because of the same mass-To-charge-number ratio A/Z = 2 for 16O, 12C and 4He. Hence, radical changes of the R3B setup were necessary. All detectors had slits to allow the passage of the unreacted 16O ions, while 4He and 12C would hit the detectors' active areas depending on the scattering angle and their relative energies. We developed and built detectors based on organic scintillators to track and identify the reaction products with sufficient precision.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012016
Number of pages47
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1668
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Oct 2020
Event9th Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics, NPA 2019 - Frankfurt, Germany
Duration: 15 Sept 201920 Sept 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This project was supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (05P19RFFN1, 05P15RFFN1, 05P15RDFN1), HGS-HIRE, HIC for FAIR and the GSI-TU Darmstadt cooperation agreement.

Funding Information:
I. Gašparić and R. Popočovski have been supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under projects no. 1257 and 7194.

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