A Geant4 Simulation Package for the TASISpec Experimental Detector Setup

Summary, in English

The experimental detector setup TASISpec (TA SCA in Small Image mode Spectroscopy) comprises composite Ge- and highly segmented Si-detectors. The setup is constructed to provide multi-coincidence spectroscopic data between gamma-rays, X-rays, conversion electrons, fission fragments, and alpha-particles for heavy and superheavy elements (Z >= 100). The full array has been virtually constructed using the Geant4 simulation toolkit. The simulations will not only be used to explore the possibilities of the detector setup itself. More important, however, they will also shed light on the nuclear structure of the heaviest elements. This can be done by comparing the simulated detector response of complex decay modes with the experimental data. Such an iterative or "self-consistent" way to understand experimental observables will provide more reliability when disentangling the data and deducing experimental decay schemes. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

• Author: L. G. Sarmiento; L. -L. Andersson; Dirk Rudolph
• Department/s: Nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 26-31
• Publication/Series: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
• Volume: 667
• Full text: - 418 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.11.074
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
• Keywords: Decay tagging spectrometer; and conversion electron; gamma-Ray; alpha; spectroscopy at recoil separators; Si strip detector; Clover Ge; Cluster Ge detector; detector; Geant4
• Status: Published
• Research group: Nuclear Structure
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0167-5087