Sotirios Harissopulos
(NCSR "Demokritos" - Athens)
27/06/11, 17:50
A new method employing a large-volume NaI crystal was developed for cross-section measurements of astrophysically relevant capture reactions on medium-mass nuclei. The response function of such a 4 pi calorimeter enables the summing of all capture events. As a result, a single peak, the so-called sum
peak, arises in the spectra. Its intensity can be used to obtain very low cross sections of...
Michail Axiotis
(INP, NCSR "Demokritos")
27/06/11, 18:10
Time Projection Chambers are widely used since many years for tracking and identification of charged particles in high energy physics. The feasibility of using a low-cost and "mobile" instrument of this kind to count the recoils, instead of the gammas, emitted by a capture reaction in inverse kinematics is investigated. This approach would provide a breakthrough for cross section measurements...