Windowless thin solid-hydrogen target: CHyMENE

A. Gillibert; A. Corsi; F. Flavigny; C. Louchart; L. Nalpas; A. Obertelli; E. C. Pollacco; G. Authelet; J. -M. Gheller; D. Guillaume; V. Méot; O. Roig; I. Vinyar; A. Lukin

doi:10.1140/epja/i2013-13155-y

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Eur. Phys. J. A (2013) 49: 155
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2013-13155-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Windowless thin solid-hydrogen target: CHyMENE

A. Gillibert¹^*, A. Corsi¹, F. Flavigny¹, C. Louchart¹, L. Nalpas¹, A. Obertelli¹, E. C. Pollacco¹, G. Authelet², J. -M. Gheller², D. Guillaume³, V. Méot⁴, O. Roig⁴, I. Vinyar⁵ and A. Lukin⁵

¹ CEA, Centre de Saclay, IRFU/SPhN, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
² CEA, Centre de Saclay, IRFU/SACM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
³ INAC, CEA Grenoble, 38054, Grenoble CEDEX, France
⁴ CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
⁵ PELIN Laboratory, 27A, Gzhatskaya, 195220, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

^* e-mail: alain.gillibert@cea.fr

Received: 7 October 2013
Revised: 26 November 2013
Accepted: 2 December 2013
Published online: 18 December 2013

Abstract

We report on the production of a windowless pure hydrogen H² film. The thickness is within the range 50–200μm, in order to be used as a target for nuclear reactions in inverse kinematics with radioactive beams at low incident energy (2–15 MeV/nucleon). We give details about the production conditions and a first in-beam test in order to measure the thickness and the homogeneity with a 3 MeV proton beam.

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