FARCOS, a new array for femtoscopy and correlation spectroscopy

L. Acosta¹, E.V. Pagano^1,2, T. Minniti^3,4, G. Verde⁵, F. Amorini¹, A. Anzalone¹, L. Auditore^3,4, M. Buscemi^1,2, G. Cardella⁵, A. Chbihi⁶, E. De Filippo⁵, L. Francalanza^1,2, E. Geraci^2,5, S. Gianì^1,2, C. Guazzoni^7,8, E. La Guidara^5,9, G. Lanzalone^1,10, I. Lombardo^11,12, S. Lo Nigro^2,5, D. Loria^3,4, C. Maiolino¹, I. Martel¹³, A. Pagano⁵, M. Papa⁵, S. Pirrone⁵, G. Politi^2,5, F. Porto^1,2, F. Rizzo^1,2, P. Russotto^1,2, A.M. Sánchez-Bentez¹³, J.A. Duenas¹³, R. Berjillos¹³, S. Santoro^3,4, A. Trifirò^3,4, M. Trimachi^3,4, M. Venhart¹⁴, M. Veselsky¹⁴ and M. Vigilante^11,12

¹ INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
³ INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Messina, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
⁵ INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
⁶ GANIL, CEA-IN2P3-CNRS, Caen, France
⁷ INFN, Sezione di Milano, Italy
⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
⁹ CSFNSM, Catania, Italy
¹⁰ Università Kore, Enna, Italy
¹¹ INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
¹² Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli, Italy
¹³ Universidad de Huelva, Spain
¹⁴ Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Published online: 05 July 2012

Abstract

Correlations between two or more particles can be used as a tool to explore the space-time features of nuclear reactions as well as spectroscopic properties of produced unbound clusters. In order to have new options to study the mentioned correlations, FARCOS (Femtoscope ARray for COrrelations and Spectroscopy) has been conceived as a compact high resolution array, composed of square telescopes. In this work the main features of FARCOS array as well as part of the physics cases are described.