Development of the ELISSA array: prototype testing at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud

G. L. Guardo; A. Anzalone; D. Balabanski; S. Chesnevskaya; W. Crucillá; D. Filipescu; M. Gulino; M. La Cognata; D. Lattuada; C. Matei; R. G. Pizzone; G. G. Rapisarda; S. Romano; C. Spitaleri; A. Taffara; A. Tumino; Y. Xu

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201818402006

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EPJ Web Conf., 184 (2018) 02006

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 184, 2018 9^th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics


Article Number		02006
Number of page(s)		3
Section		Session 2
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818402006
Published online		29 June 2018

EPJ Web of Conferences 184, 02006 (2018)
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Development of the ELISSA array: prototype testing at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud

G. L. Guardo¹^,2^*, A. Anzalone², D. Balabanski¹, S. Chesnevskaya¹, W. Crucillá², D. Filipescu¹, M. Gulino²^,3, M. La Cognata², D. Lattuada¹, C. Matei¹, R. G. Pizzone², G. G. Rapisarda², S. Romano²^,4, C. Spitaleri²^,4, A. Taffara², A. Tumino²^,3 and Y. Xu²

¹ ELI-NP/ IFIN-HH, Magurele, Romania
² INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
³ Facoltá di Ingegneria e Architettura, Universitá Kore, Enna, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli Studi, Catania, Italy

^* e-mail: luca.guardo@eli-np.ro

Published online: 29 June 2018

Abstract

The Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility, underconstruction in Magurele near Bucharest in Romania, will provide high-intensity andhigh-resolution gamma ray beams that can be used to address hotly debated problems in nuclear astrophysics, such as the accurate measurements of the cross sections of the²⁴Mg(γ,α)₂₀Ne reaction

For this purpose, a silicon strip detector array (named ELISSA) will be realized in acommon effort by ELI-NP and Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS), in order to measure excitation functions and angular distributions over a wide energy and angular range. A prototype of ELISSA was built and tested at INFN-LNS in Catania (Italy) with the support of ELI-NP. In this occasion, we have carried out experiments with alpha sources and with a 11 MeV ⁷Li beam that show up a very good energy resolution (better than 1%) and very good position resolution, of the order of 1 mm. Moreover, a threshold of 150 keV can be easily achieved with no cooling.

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