https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01622-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Energy calibration of the 2.5 MV Pelletron at the Dalton Cumbrian Facility
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK
2
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, UK
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Università Degli Studi di Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, 46556, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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The University of Manchester’s Dalton Cumbrian Facility, Westlakes Science Park, Moor Row, CA24 3HA, Cumbria, UK
a
ragan.sidhu@surrey.ac.uk
b
m.aliotta@ed.ac.uk
Received:
31
January
2025
Accepted:
17
June
2025
Published online:
8
July
2025
We report on the energy calibration of the 2.5 MV Pelletron accelerator at the Dalton Cumbrian Facility in England (UK) using five well-known resonances in the 27Al(p,
Si reaction in the proton beam energy range of 632–1800 keV. The beam energy spread was also measured and found to be 191(38) eV. Additionally, we checked the stability and reproducibility of the accelerator’s beam energy, confirming its suitability for nuclear astrophysics experiments, especially in the high-energy regime of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis.
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