Preparatory investigations of fast separation for heavy ion reaction products

1974 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Hoffmann ◽  
K. Bächmann
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Fast Separation

Procedures for a fast separation of berkelium from complex mixtures of reaction products

1983 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fang Liu ◽  
Cheng Luo ◽  
K. J. Moody ◽  
D. Lee ◽  
G. T. Seaborg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Mixtures ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Fast Separation

A low-energy ion beam from alkali heavy-ion reaction products

1994 ◽  
Vol 351 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 256-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Behr ◽  
S.B. Cahn ◽  
S.B. Dutta ◽  
A. Ghosh ◽  
G. Gwinner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Reaction Products

The Munich RF-recoil spectrometer for the observation of heavy-ion reaction products at zero degree

1983 ◽  
Vol 204 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 407-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Rudolph ◽  
D. Evers ◽  
P. Konrad ◽  
K.E.G. Löbner ◽  
U. Quade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Zero Degree

scholarly journals The NUMEN Project: An Update of the Facility Toward the Future Experimental Campaigns

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Cappuzzello ◽  
Luis Acosta ◽  
Clementina Agodi ◽  
Ismail Boztosun ◽  
Giuseppe A. Brischetto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Exchange Reactions ◽  
Double Charge Exchange ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Superconducting Cyclotron ◽  
Experimental Yield ◽  
Double Charge

The goal of NUMEN project is to access experimentally driven information on Nuclear Matrix Elements (NME) involved in the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) by accurate measurements of the cross sections of heavy-ion induced double charge-exchange reactions. In particular, the (18O, 18Ne) and (20Ne, 20O) reactions are adopted as tools for β+β+ and β−β− decays, respectively. The experiments are performed at INFN–Laboratory Nazionali del Sud (LNS) in Catania using the Superconducting Cyclotron to accelerate the beams and the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer to detect the reaction products. The measured cross sections are very low, limiting the present exploration to few selected isotopes of interest in the context of typically low-yield experimental runs. In order to make feasible a systematic study of all the candidate nuclei, a major upgrade of the LNS facility is foreseen to increase the experimental yield by more than two orders of magnitude. To this purpose, frontier technologies are being developed for both the accelerator and the detection systems. An update description of the NUMEN project is presented here, focusing on recent achievements from the R&D activity.

Detection of heavy-ion reaction products in bound excited states

1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1450-1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Siwek-Wilczynska ◽  
R. A. Blue ◽  
L. H. Harwood ◽  
R. M. Ronningen ◽  
H. Utsunomiya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Excited States ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Reaction Products

scholarly journals The NUMEN Heavy Ion Multidetector for a Complementary Approach to the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Finocchiaro ◽  
Luis Acosta ◽  
Clementina Agodi ◽  
Carmen Altana ◽  
Paulina Amador-Valenzuela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Exchange Reactions ◽  
Intrinsic Nature ◽  
Experimental Apparatus ◽  
Double Charge

Neutrinos are so far the most elusive known particles, and in the last decades many sophisticated experiments have been set up in order to clarify several questions about their intrinsic nature, in particular their masses, mass hierarchy, intrinsic nature of Majorana or Dirac particles. Evidence of the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (NDBD) would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles, thus improving the understanding of the universe itself. Besides the search for several large underground experiments for the direct experimental detection of NDBD, the NUMEN experiment proposes the investigation of a nuclear mechanism strongly linked to this decay: the Double Charge Exchange reactions (DCE). As such reactions share with the NDBD the same initial and final nuclear states, they could shed light on the determination of the Nuclear Matrix Elements (NMEs), which play a relevant role in the decay. The physics of DCE is described elsewhere in this issue, while the focus of this paper will be on the challenging experimental apparatus currently under construction in order to fulfil the requirements of the NUMEN experiment. The overall structure of the technological improvement to the cyclotron, along with the newly developed detection systems required for tracking and identifying the reaction products and their final excitation level are described.

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