The latest progress made in the field of radioactive ion beam physics is outlined and the key problems still under investigation are indicated. The focal points are the limit of nuclear existence, shell evolution and new magic numbers, halo and cluster structures, new excitation modes, and strong coupling between reaction channels. This field is still at a starting phase and much more new outcomes are foreseen.
Knockout reaction experiment was carried out by using the 6He beams at 61.2 MeV/u impinging on a CH2 target. The α core fragments at forward angles were detected in coincidence with the recoiled protons at larger angles. From this exclusive meas urement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism can be distinguished by the relation be tween the polar angles of the core fragments and the recoiled protons, respectively. It is demonstrated that the core knockout mechanism may result in some strong contamination to the real invariant mass spectrum.
Lü LinHui1, YE YanLin1, JIANG DongXing1, HUA Hui1, ZHENG Tao1, LI ZhiHuan1, GE YuCheng1, LI XiangQing1, LOU JianLing1, CAO ZhongXin1, SONG YuShou1, XIAO Jun1, LI QiTe1, QIAO Rui1, YOU HaiBo1, CHEN RuiJiu1, XU HuShan2, WANG JianSong2, GUO ZhongYan2, ZHANG XueYing2, LI Chen2, HU ZhengGuo2, CHEN RuoFu2, WANG Meng2, XU ZhiGuo2, YUE Ke2, TANG Bin2, ZANG YongDong2, ZHANG XueHeng2, YAO XiangWu2, CHEN JinDa2 & BAI Zhen2 1 School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
A knockout reaction experiment was carried out by using the 6He beam at 82.5 MeV/nucleon impinging on CH2 and C targets. The a core fragments at forward angles were detected in coincidence with the recoiled protons at larger angles. From this exclusive measure- ment the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism are separated. This study provides a basis for the exclusive spectroscopic investigation of the exotic nuclei.
Along with the development of the radioactive nuclear beam facility, the study of the structure of unstable nuclei has progressed rapidly over the last few decades. Due to the weakly binding property, the structure information of the unstable nuclei comes primarily from the scattering or reaction experiments. Therefore it would be very important to understand clearly the reaction mechanism involved in the experiment. We outlined here the major reaction mechanisms which are adequate to the study of unstable nuclei, with the focus on the new phenomena and methods in comparison with those with traditional stable nucleus beam. Especially emphasized are the breakup and knockout reactions, developed as accurate tools for spectroscopy investigation into the nuclear structure with low intensity secondary beam. Couplings of the breakup channel to the elastic scattering and the fusion and transfer reactions are also reviewed.
CAO ZhongXin & YE YanLin State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
A neutron detector array was used in a breakup reaction experiment at RIKEN with an 82.5 MeV/u SHe beam impinging on the CH2 and C targets. The array was calibrated using the cosmic ray, the 7 ray from the 6He＋Pb reaction and the mono-energetic neutrons from the 7Li（p, n）TBe（g.s.＋0.43 MeV） reaction. The position resolution, timing resolution and neutron de- tection efficiency were obtained accordingly. Cross-talk rejection conditions were developed based on analysis of the data taken from the 7Li（p, n）TBe（g.s.＋0.43 MeV） test experiment, and finally a preliminary two-neutron correlation function for the SHe breakup reaction was investigated.
An experiment for knockout reaction induced by SHe beam at 82.5 MeV/nucleon on CH2 and C targets was carried out. The 6He and 4He core fragments at forward angles and the recoiled protons at large angles were detected coincidently. From this exclusive measurement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism are separated, which can be applied to the exclusive spectroscopic study on the structure of exotic nuclei.
Efficient calibration methods have been applied to a complex neutron detector array by using the cosmic-ray muons. Through a differential operation on the time difference spectrum, the two edges of this spectrum can be precisely determined, corresponding to the geometrical two ends of the bar, and therefore the relationship between the position and time difference spectrum can be deduced for each bar. The alignment between different bars is realized by choosing cosmic- rays which are perpendicular to the bars. The position resolutions are extracted through a track fitting procedure which uses all tracks detected coincidently by the whole system, together with a simulation analysis. A method is also developed to calibrate the deposited energy by using cosmic-rays at different incident angles.
