Initial Test of the Ten-Inch Manipulator-Based Short Lived Isotope Counting System

The Short-Lived Isotope Counting System (SLICS) is designed to measure cross sections for astrophysically relevant light-ion reactions and energies. The dE-E phoswich detector telescope, which identifies beta particles from decaying 20 ms to 20 s half-life reaction product nuclei, has been redesigned to fit in a Ten-Inch Manipulator (TIM) for insertion in the OMEGA-60 and OMEGA-EP target chambers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. In the first test of the new design, ⁸Li decays were detected after the ⁷Li(d, p)⁸Li reaction was triggered by a pulse of OMEGA-EP target normal sheath acceleration (TSNA) deuterons. This poster presents a description the new design and preliminary test results.