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EPJ Web of Conf.
Volume 290, 2023
European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC 2022)
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Article Number | 01004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | P1 Accelerators and Instrumentation | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329001004 | |
Published online | 08 December 2023 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329001004
Warsaw Active-Target TPC: A new detector for photonuclear reactions studies at astrophysical energies
1 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland
2 LNS at Avery Point, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
3 Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics, IFIN-HH, Magurele, Romania
* e-mail: Mikolaj.Cwiok@fuw.edu.pl
Published online: 8 December 2023
An active-target time-projection chamber (TPC) optimised for studying nuclear reactions of astro-physical interest was developed by the University of Warsaw for studying photo-disintegration reactions using intense, monochromatic γ-ray beams. Different reactions can be studied by tuning composition and density of the gaseous target for particular energy of the gamma beam. The Warsaw TPC detector, with its active volume of about 33x20x20 cm3 centred around the beam axis and micro-pattern structures (GEMs) employed to amplify the primary ionisation induced by charged particles produced in reactions in the gaseous target, is characterised by a readout based on signal strips, arranged into 3-coordinate redundant system. The 3D kinematics of charged particles in the event are reconstructed from a total of about 103 channels read out by digitising front-end electronics based on the General Electronics for TPCs (GET). In this paper the principles of detector operation and basic track reconstruction methods are discussed and illustrated by means of preliminary results from pilot measurements conducted in 2021-22.
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