https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-024-01318-2
Special Article - New Tools and Techniques
The first in-beam reaction measurement at CRYRING@ESR using the CARME array
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School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK
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GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstr. 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
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CAS Key Laboratory of High Precision Nuclear Spectroscopy, Lanzhou, China
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Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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RIKEN, Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama, Japan
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TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany
Received:
12
February
2024
Accepted:
12
April
2024
Published online:
29
April
2024
In the last decade nuclear reaction measurements using heavy ion storage rings became an important tool for nuclear astrophysics studies. The new CRYRING Array for Reaction MEasurements (CARME), recently commissioned at the low energy CRYRING@ESR storage ring (GSI/FAIR), is designed to take this novel approach one step further and perform direct nuclear reaction measurements at stellar energies, as well as indirect studies of nuclear properties of interest for nuclear astrophysics. CRYRING is unique worldwide in being able to store high quality, isotopically pure, radioactive beams produced in-flight at the low energies required for nuclear astrophysics. This paper describes the first in-beam reaction measurement with CARME at CRYRING, the first beam on (conventional) target measurement for FAIR Phase-0, and the data analysis approach required by this unprecedented, unique experimental approach.
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