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Response of Multi-strip Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber
A prototype of Multi-strip Multi-gap Resistive Plate chamber (MMRPC) with
active area 40 cm 20 cm has been developed at SINP, Kolkata. Detailed
response of the developed detector was studied with the pulsed electron beam
from ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. In this report the response
of SINP developed MMRPC with different controlling parameters is described in
details. The obtained time resolution () of the detector after slew
correction was 91.53 ps. Position resolution measured along ()
and across () the strip was 2.80.6 cm and 0.58 cm, respectively.
The measured absolute efficiency of the detector for minimum ionizing particle
like electron was 95.81.3 . Better timing resolution of the detector
can be achieved by restricting the events to a single strip. The response of
the detector was mainly in avalanche mode but a few percentage of streamer mode
response was also observed. A comparison of the response of these two modes
with trigger rate was studiedComment: 19 pages, 26 figure
Number of quantal resonances
Employing the concept of time-delay, a relation is found which counts the
number of quantal resonances supported by a potential. Several simple and
advanced illustrations include a treatment of square-well, Dirac delta barrier,
an interesting physical situation from neutron reflectometry, and the Delta
resonance appearing in the scattering of \pi meson from proton.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Invariant-mass and [gamma]-ray spectroscopy using secondary, radioactive ion beams
Coulomb excitation of secondary beams (5 < Z < 20) at energies
around 250 .1 MeV was explored at GSI. For low-lying states, 7-ray spectroscopy
was utilized, while high-lying excitations were investigated by
means of invariant-mass spectroscopy
Direct experimental evidence for a multiparticle-hole ground state configuration of deformed Mg-33
The first direct experimental evidence of a multiparticle-hole ground state configuration of the neutron-rich Mg-33 isotope has been obtained via intermediate energy (400 A MeV) Coulomb dissociation measurement. The major part similar to(70 +/- 13)% of the cross section is observed to populate the excited states of Mg-32 after the Coulomb breakup of Mg-33. The shapes of the differential Coulomb dissociation cross sections in coincidence with different core excited states favor that the valence neutron occupies both the s(1/2) and p(3/2) orbitals. These experimental findings suggest a significant reduction and merging of sd-pf shell gaps at N similar to 20 and 28. The ground state configuration of Mg-33 is predominantly a combination of Mg-32(3.0,3.5MeV; 2(-), 1(-)) circle times nu(s1/2), Mg-32(2.5MeV; 2(+)) circle times nu(p3/2), and Mg-32(0; 0(+)) circle times nu(p3/2). The experimentally obtained quantitative spectroscopic information for the valence neutron occupation of the s and p orbitals, coupled with different core states, is in agreement with Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) calculation using 3 MeV as the shell gap at N = 20
Systematics of production cross sections and predictions for the synthesis of new superheavy elements
A systematic analysis of hot fusion reactions with a comparison to experimental cross sections related to the synthesis of superheavy elements is carried out using the HIVAP code. A single parameter set is found which when implemented in the HIVAP computer code, describes experimental production cross sections for reactions using a Ca-48 beam on actinide targets reasonably well. A simple scaling based on the mass asymmetry of the projectile-target system is introduced for projectiles lighter than Ca-48. It is seen that only three parameters scaled by a constant factor are required to describe cross-section data obtained using lighter projectiles. The projectile dependence on the production cross section is also studied. From these investigations, new reactions with Ca-48 incident on various actinide targets are proposed for the production of unknown heavier isotopes of Z = 116 and 118 and for the synthesis of new superheavy elements with Z = 119 and 120
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