Eur. Phys. J. A (2019) 55: 47
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12714-6

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

The highly-efficient light-charged-particle detector EUCLIDES, installed at the GALILEO array for in-beam -ray spectroscopy

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
² Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
³ Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de Valencia, E-46980, Valencia, Spain
⁴ Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
⁵ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Padova, Italy
⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica dell`Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
⁷ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
⁸ Departamento de Ingenierìa Eléctrica, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain

^* e-mail: testov@lnl.infn.it

Received: 29 May 2018
Accepted: 2 February 2019
Published online: 1 April 2019

Abstract

In a fusion-evaporation reaction, nuclei are produced by evaporating light-charged particles and neutrons from the compound nucleus. Typically, a nucleus of interest is produced as a result of a part of the total cross-section and, in order to guarantee a good channel discrimination, a particle detector, like the EUCLIDES Si-ball array, is necessary. EUCLIDES has been quoted in more than a hundred publications resulting from many experiments performed in combination with the EUROBALL and GASP -ray spectrometers. The present paper reports on the upgraded version of EUCLIDES, that is presently coupled to the new GALILEO -ray spectrometer, installed at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN. The design, characteristics and performance of the EUCLIDES array are presented and discussed.