Open Access
Issue
ND 2007
2007
Article Number 101
Number of page(s) 4
Section Fission studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/ndata:07353
Published online 17 June 2008
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2007
DOI: 10.1051/ndata:07353

Energy degrader technique for light-charged particle spectroscopy at LOHENGRIN

A. Oberstedt1, S. Oberstedt2, 3 and D. Rochman2, 4

1  Institutionen för Naturvetenskap, Örebro Universitet, 70182 Örebro, Sweden
2  Institut Laue-Langevin, 6 rue Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble, France
3  EC-JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), 2440 Geel, Belgium
4  Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Nuclear Data Center, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA

andreas.oberstedt@nat.oru.se

Published online: 21 May 2008

Abstract
The recoil mass-separator LOHENGRIN at Institute Laue-Langevin was originally designed for the spectrometry of binary fission fragments. Nevertheless, it was also used in the past for measuring light-charged particles from ternary fission. However, due to the electric field settings the energy distribution of the lightest particles was not completely accessible, which made the determination of mean kinetic energies, widths and, hence, emission yields difficult. In this paper we present an energy degrader technique that allows for the measurement of the entire energy spectrum of even the lightest ternary particles with LOHENGRIN.



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