Eur. Phys. J. A (2015) 51: 93
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2015-15093-0

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Improvements in data analysis obtained by large-area silicon ΔE - E detector telescopes

¹ Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
² Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
³ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universtita’ di Catania, Catania, Italy
⁵ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy
⁶ Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
⁷ Centro de Física Nuclear da, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003, Lisboa, Portugal

^* e-mail: milivoj.uroic@irb.hr

Received: 12 March 2015
Revised: 23 June 2015
Accepted: 1 July 2015
Published online: 3 August 2015

Abstract

The paper describes a few practical methods for the analysis of data obtained by standard thin-thick silicon detector telescopes used in nuclear reaction measurements. The addressed issues are: 1) improvement in double-sided silicon strip detector (DSSSD) calibration based on the fact that each event is registered twice, both in horizontal and vertical strips, 2) improvements in particle identification and 3) simplified mapping of the non-uniformity of the thin detector, without a dedicated measurement of the thickness. The proposed procedures are applied on experimental data obtained for 30MeV ⁷Li beam induced reactions on LiF and C targets, studied with a detection setup consisting of four telescopes placed at different angles and distances. The proposed methods aim at quicker and more reliable calibration and particle identification.