Energy degrader technique for light-charged particle spectroscopy at LOHENGRIN

• Although the recoil mass-separator LOHENGRIN at Institute Laue-Langevin was originally designed for the spectrometry of binary fission fragments, it was also used in the past for measuring light-charged particles from ternary fission. However, due to limited electric field settings the energy distribution of the lightest particles was not completely accessible. In this contribution we report on an energy degrader technique that allows the measurement of the entire energy spectra of ternary particles with LOHENGRIN. We demonstrate how the measured particle spectra are distorted by the energy degrader and present results from a Monte Carlo simulation that shows how the original energy distributions are reconstructed. Finally, we apply this procedure to experimental data of ternary particles from the reaction 235U(nth, f).

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Nuclear physics

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Fysik

Physics

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