SHARC: Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reactions and Coulex used in conjunction with the TIGRESS γ-ray spectrometer

C Aa Diget; S P Fox; A Smith; S Williams; M Porter-Peden; L Achouri; P Adsley; H Al-Falou; R A E Austin; G C Ball; J C Blackmon; S Brown; W N Catford; A A Chen; J Chen; R M Churchman; J Dech; D Di Valentino; M Djongolov; B R Fulton; A Garnsworthy; G Hackman; U Hager; R Kshetri; L Kurchaninov; A M Laird; J -P Martin; M Matos; J N Orce; N A Orr; C J Pearson; C Ruiz; F Sarazin; S Sjue; D Smalley; C E Svensson; M Taggart; E Tardiff; G L Wilson

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/6/02/P02005

Journal of Instrumentation

SHARC: Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reactions and Coulex used in conjunction with the TIGRESS γ-ray spectrometer

C Aa Diget¹, S P Fox¹, A Smith², S Williams³, M Porter-Peden⁴, L Achouri⁵, P Adsley¹, H Al-Falou⁶, R A E Austin⁶, G C Ball³, J C Blackmon⁷, S Brown⁸, W N Catford⁸, A A Chen⁹, J Chen⁹, R M Churchman³, J Dech³, D Di Valentino³, M Djongolov³, B R Fulton¹, A Garnsworthy³, G Hackman³, U Hager^3,4, R Kshetri¹⁰, L Kurchaninov³, A M Laird¹, J -P Martin¹¹, M Matos⁷, J N Orce³, N A Orr⁵, C J Pearson³, C Ruiz³, F Sarazin⁴, S Sjue³, D Smalley⁴, C E Svensson¹², M Taggart¹, E Tardiff³ and G L Wilson⁸

Published 7 February 2011 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 6, February 2011 Citation C Aa Diget et al 2011 JINST 6 P02005 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/6/02/P02005

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¹ Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK

² School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

³ TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3, Canada

⁴ Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA

⁵ Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, IN2P3-CNRS, ISMRA et Université de Caen, F-14050 Caen, France

⁶ Department of Astronomy and Physics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3C3, Canada

⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

⁸ Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 5XH, UK

⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M1, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

¹¹ Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

¹² Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada

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Received 10 January 2011
Accepted 26 January 2011
Published 7 February 2011

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The combination of γ-ray spectroscopy and charged-particle spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the study of nuclear reactions with beams of nuclei far from stability. This paper presents a new silicon detector array, SHARC, the Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reactions and Coulex. The array is used at the radioactive-ion-beam facility at TRIUMF (Canada), in conjunction with the TIGRESS γ-ray spectrometer, and is built from custom Si-strip detectors utilising a fully digital readout. SHARC has more than 50% efficiency, approximately 1000-strip segmentation, angular resolutions of Δθ ≈ 1.3 deg and Δϕ ≈ 3.5 deg, 25–30 keV energy resolution, and thresholds of 200 keV for up to 25 MeV particles. SHARC is now complete, and the experimental program in nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure has commenced.

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