T-REX

• DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2012-12085-6
• Publication Date: 2012-07-06T21:32:58Z
• Authors: Vinzenz Bildstein; Roman Gernhäuser; Thorsten Kröll; Reiner Krücken; Kathrin Wimmer; Piet Van Duppen; Mark Huyse; Nikolas Patronis; Riccardo Raabe
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences

Transfer reactions in inverse kinematics using the radioactive ion beams provided by the REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN are very good tools to gain insight into the single-particle properties of exotic nuclei. The new silicon particle detector setup T-REX, optimized for these transfer reactions, is presented in this article. T-REX consists of position sensitive ΔE -E telescopes in a compact configuration that covers up to 66% of the solid angle. The setup allows the identification of the light reaction products and the measurement of their angular distribution for a large range of polar angles. Simultaneous detection of the elastically scattered target-like nuclei enables the determination of the optical model parameters used in the analysis of the experiments.