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Separating Signal from Noise for (d,n) Reactions using NEXT

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Abstract

The (d,n) proton-transfer-reaction can be used with both stable and radioactive ion beams to inform on nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. The Neutron dEtector with multi neutron (Xn) Tracking (NEXT) is a high-efficiency neutron time-of-flight detector array with neutron-gamma discrimination. The Hybrid Array of Gamma Ray Detector (HAGRiD) modules were also used in this experiment to measure the gamma-ray energies. A recent commissioning run to measure the previously known 20Ne(d,n) reaction was performed in inverse kinematics at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) using the ReAccelerated (ReA6) facility that provided a stable 20Ne beam at 10 MeV/u. 

 

Methods will be presented for separating the reaction and beam-induced neutrons and gamma rays from within the C2D4reaction target and from the beam-stop. Using the geometry of the experimental setup, the time difference between the reaction target and the beam-stop was calculated to differentiate the signals and subtract out the beam-stop background.

Presenters

  • Destynne M Oliver

    The University of Texas at El Paso

Authors

  • Destynne M Oliver

    The University of Texas at El Paso

  • Kelly A Chipps

    Oak Ridge National Lab, ORNL

  • Michael Febbraro

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Robert Grzywacz

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Joseph Heideman

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Lawrence H Heilbronn

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Kate L Jones

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Thomas T King

    University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Noritaka Kitamura

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Jerome Mathew Kovoor

    University of Tennessee

  • Miguel Madurga

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Shree K Neupane

    University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Steven D Pain

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Lab, ORNL

  • Alicia Palmisano

    Michigan State University, NSCL/FRIB, Michigan State University, UTK, FRIB, University of Tennessee

  • Mustafa M Rajabali

    Tennessee Tech University, Tennessee Technological University

  • Karl Smith

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael S Smith

    Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Rebecca Toomey

    Rutgers University, New Brunswick