Nuclear spectroscopy with the AFRODITE γ-ray array at iThemba labs

iThemba Labs is situated near Cape Town, South Africa. The facility has a K=200 separated sector cyclotron and is used for basic and applied nuclear physics studies and also for medical purposes (treating cancer and producing radioisotopes). Gamma spectroscopy is performed using the Afrodite array, consisting of 8 clover detectors (similar to those of the Euroball array) and 7 LEPS detectors. Several experiments recently performed with the Afrodite array are discussed. Among these are studies of shears bands, measurements of high-energy (above 10 MeV) γ rays in capture reactions, signature inversion phenomena, etc. The implementation (or development) of ancillary detectors for this array, such as a charged particle detector, a recoil filter and an electron spectrometer, are also discussed. (author)