Steinhilber, Gerhart (2023)
The electron-gamma coincidence set-up at the S-DALINAC.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00022993
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | The electron-gamma coincidence set-up at the S-DALINAC | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Pietralla, Prof. Dr. Norbert ; Enders, Prof. Dr. Joachim | ||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | ix, 205 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 6 July 2022 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00022993 | ||||
Abstract: | This work describes the development, construction and commissioning of a new setup for (e,e'γ)-coincidence measurements at the superconducting Darmstadt linear accelerator S-DALINAC. (e,e'γ) reactions are characterized by the pure electromagnetic interaction in the excitation and in the decay channels and thereby allow nuclear physics investigations with high precision. In contrast to inclusive electron scattering, this measurement method is directly sensitive to the interference of longitudinal and transverse form factors, which affects the angular distribution of the emitted photons. To establish the new (e,e’γ) setup, the existing large acceptance QCLAM electron spectrometer was combined with a new setup consisting of LaBr_3:Ce detectors. For the readout of the γ-ray detectors, a new data acquisition system was developed and combined with the existing QCLAM data acquisition system to form a coincidence data acquisition. A software package for data analysis was developed. In the first commissioning experiment on the 2_1^+ and 1_2^+ states of 12C, the functionality of the (e,e'γ)-setup could be demonstrated. Findings from this and from a second commissioning experiment on 96Ru, together with GEANT4 simulations, were used to optimize the setup with a particular focus on the reduction of background radiation in the γ-ray detectors. The full and optimized setup was used in a first production run on a 96Ru target to measure the γ-decay behavior below and above the neutron separation threshold. Isolated states were observed to decay via the 2_1^+ state of 96Ru. Above the neutron separation threshold, 96Ru decays by emission of a neutron to 95Ru. Depopulations of the low-lying states of 95Ru were observed. |
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Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-229937 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Experimentelle Kernphysik > Experimentelle Kernstruktur und S-DALINAC | ||||
Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2023 13:04 | ||||
Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2023 09:14 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/22993 | ||||
PPN: | 505617102 | ||||
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