https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00875-8
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
A new Time-of-flight detector for the R
B setup
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GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstraße 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK
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IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Fachbereich Physik, Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
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Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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CINTECX, Universidade de Vigo, DSN, Dpt. Mech. Engineering, E-36310, Vigo, Spain
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Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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NRC Kurchatov Institute-Moscow, pl. Akademika Kurchatova, Moscow, Russia
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CEA Saclay, IRFU/DPhN, Centre de Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Depto. CC. Integradas y Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Física, Matemáticas y Computación. Fac. de CC. Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071, Huelva, Spain
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Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01314, Dresden, Germany
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RBI Zagreb, Bijenicka cesta 54, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str 1, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert CURIEN, Schiltigheim, France
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University of Groningen-ESRIG, Nuclear Energy Group, Groningen, The Netherlands
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GANIL, Bd Henri Becquerel, 14076, Caen, France
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University of Applied Science Aachen, Fachbereich 10-Energietechnik, Physik/Kernphysik, Heinrich-Mußmann-Straße 1, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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iThemba LABS, 7131, Faure, South Africa
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School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Institute for Basic Science, Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, 34126, Daejeon, Korea
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Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, E-46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Received:
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July
2022
Accepted:
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October
2022
Published online:
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December
2022
We present the design, prototype developments and test results of the new time-of-flight detector (ToFD) which is part of the RB experimental setup at GSI and FAIR, Darmstadt, Germany. The ToFD detector is able to detect heavy-ion residues of all charges at relativistic energies with a relative energy precision 
of up to 1% and a time precision of up to 14 ps (sigma). Together with an elaborate particle-tracking system, the full identification of relativistic ions from hydrogen up to uranium in mass and nuclear charge is possible.
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