Published December 21, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

The high resolution array (HiRA) for rare isotope beam experiments

  • 1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 (United States)
  • 3. INFN, Milan (Italy)
  • 4. Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 (United States)

Description

The High Resolution Array (HiRA) is a large solid-angle array of silicon strip-detectors that has been developed for use in a variety of nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear reaction experiments with short lived beta-unstable beams. It consists of 20 identical telescopes each composed of a thin (65μm) single-sided silicon strip-detector, a thick (1.5 mm) double-sided silicon strip-detector, and four CsI(Tl) crystals read out by photodiodes. The array can be easily configured to meet the detection requirements of specific experiments. To process the signals from the 1920 strips in the array, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) was developed. The design and performance characteristics of HiRA are described

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.248

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.248;
PII
S0168-9002(07)01947-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
583
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 302-312
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.