The characteristics of the Jefferson Lab electron beam, together with those of the experimental equipment, offer a unique opportunity to study hypernuclear spectroscopy via electromagnetic induced ...(e,e′K+) reactions. Experiment 94-107 started a systematic study on 1p-shell targets, C12, Be9 and O16. For C12 for the first time measurable strength in the core-excited part of the spectrum between the ground state and the p state was shown in the BΛ12 spectrum. For O16 a high-quality NΛ16 spectrum was produced for the first time with sub-MeV energy resolution. A very precise Λ binding energy value for NΛ16, calibrated against the elementary (e,e′K+) reaction on hydrogen, has also been obtained. Preliminary data on the LiΛ9 spectrum shows some disagreement in strength for the second and third doublet with respect to the theory.
The TOP-IMPLART project Ronsivalle, C.; Carpanese, M.; Marino, C. ...
European physical journal plus,
07/2011, Letnik:
126, Številka:
7
Journal Article
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A new proton therapy center is planned to be built in Rome, Italy. The project, named TOP-IMPLART, is developed by three institutions, ENEA (Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e lo ...Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile - Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development), ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italian National Institute of Health) and IFO-IRE (Istituto Fisioterapico Ospedaliero - Istituto Regina Elena, Regina Elena, National Cancer Institute in Rome). The project is centered on a medium-energy proton accelerator designed as a sequence of linear accelerators. Two phases of construction are foreseen: the first (funded by the Italian Regione Lazio for 11 M€ spread over four years) with a maximum energy of 150 MeV and the second one up to 230 MeV. The segment up to 150 MeV is under construction and will be tested at the ENEA Research Center in Frascati before the transfer to IFO that is the clinical user. The basic concepts of the design are described here.
Production status of the JLAB Hall-A GEM and Si μstrip Tracker Basile, E.; Bellini, V.; Capogni, M. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
08/2013, Letnik:
718
Journal Article
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We developed and tested a new charged particle tracking system, able to operate in high luminosity experiments, which will be installed at Jefferson Laboratory HallA (VA, USA) for optimally exploit ...the new 12GeV energy electron beam available at the end of 2013. The tracker is made of six GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) large chambers and two 10×20cm2 planes of SIlicon microstrip Detectors (SIDs). Each GEM chamber is composed by three 40×50cm2 GEM modules, with two-dimensional strip readout, with expected spatial resolution of about 70μm. The same dedicated acquisition system will be used for both detectors (GEM & SID) for a grand total of more than 50,000 channels. The readout electronics is divided into two parts: the front-end cards (based on the existing APV25 chip), hosted on the detectors periphery and the digitizer, a multi purpose VME-64x/VXS board located far from the high radiation environment. The very same electronics has been adopted by the Olympus experiment (DESY, Hamburg, D) to read out the six GEM chambers of its luminosity monitor. The developed detectors and electronics are now ready for the production, which will last for the next 2 years.
Updated results of the experiment E94-107 hypernuclear spectroscopy in Hall A of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), are presented. The experiment provides high ...resolution spectra of excitation energy for
12
Λ
B,
16
Λ
N, and
9
Λ
Li hypernuclei obtained by electroproduction of strangeness. A new theoretical calculation for
12
Λ
B, final results for
16
Λ
N, and discussion of the preliminary results of
9
Λ
Li are reported.
The HERMES dual-radiator ring imaging Cherenkov detector Akopov, N; Aschenauer, E.C; Bailey, K ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
03/2002, Letnik:
479, Številka:
2
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The construction and use of a dual radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector is described. This instrument was developed for the HERMES experiment at DESY which emphasises measurements of ...semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. It provides particle identification for pions, kaons, and protons in the momentum range from 2 to
15
GeV
, which is essential to these studies. The instrument uses two radiators, C
4F
10, a heavy fluorocarbon gas, and a wall of silica aerogel tiles. The use of aerogel in a RICH detector has only recently become possible with the development of clear, large, homogeneous and hydrophobic aerogel. A lightweight mirror was constructed using a newly perfected technique to make resin-coated carbon-fiber surfaces of optical quality. The photon detector consists of 1934 photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for each detector half, held in a soft steel matrix to provide shielding against the residual field of the main spectrometer magnet.
When a nuclear or radiological accident results in a release of a radioactive plume, AGS (Aerial Gamma Spectrometry) systems used in many countries, equipped with passive detectors, can help in ...giving quantitative assessment on the radiological situation (land surface contamination level) only when the air contamination due to the passage of the travelling plume has become negligible. To overcome this limitation, the Italian Institute of Health has developed and implemented a multi purpose air sampling system based on a fixed wing aircraft, for time-effective, large areas radiological surveillance (to face radiological emergency and to support homeland security). A fixed wing aircraft (Sky Arrow 650) with the front part of the fuselage properly adapted to house the detection equipment has been equipped with a compact air sampling line where the isokinetic sampling is dynamically maintained. Aerosol is collected on a Teflon® filter positioned along the line and hosted on a rotating 4-filters disk. A complex of detectors allows radionuclide identification in the collected aerosol samples. A correlated analysis of these two detectors data allows a quantitative measurement of air as well as ground surface concentration of gamma emitting radioisotopes. Environmental sensors and a GPS receiver support the characterization of the sampling conditions and the temporal and geolocation of the acquired data. Acquisition and control system based on compact electronics and real time software that operate the sampling line actuators, guarantee the dynamical isokinetic condition, and acquire the detectors and sensor data. The system is also equipped with other sampling lines to provide information on the concentration of other chemical pollutants. Operative flights have been carried out in the last years, and performances and results are presented.
A proximity focusing RICH detector has been constructed for the hadron High Resolution Spectrometer (HRS) of Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall-A. This detector is intended to provide excellent hadron ...identification up to a momentum of
2.5
GeV
/
c
. The RICH uses a 15
mm thick liquid perfluorohexane radiator in proximity focusing geometry to produce Cherenkov photons traversing a 100
mm thick proximity gap filled with pure methane and converted into electrons by a thin film of CsI deposited on the cathode plane of a MWPC.
The detector has been successfully employed in the fixed target, high luminosity and high resolution hypernuclear spectroscopy experiment. With its use as a kaon identifier in the
2
GeV
/
c
region, the very large contribution from pions and protons to the hypernuclear spectrum was reduced to a negligible level. The basic parameters and the resulting performance obtained during the experiment are reported in this paper.
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