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A New Beam Diagnostic System for the MASHA Setup

Author
Motycak S. JINR
Krupa Luboš, M.Sc. Ph.D. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics CTU, JINR Dubna
et al.  different institutions

Year
2016

Scientific journal
Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters, 13 (5), 586-590

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Abstract
A new beam diagnostic system based on the PXI standard was developed, tested, and used in the MASHA setup experiment. The beam energy and beam current measurements were carried out using several methods. The online time-of-flight energy measurements were carried out using three pick-up detectors. We used two electronic systems to measure the time between the pick-ups. The first system was based on fast Agilent digitizers (2-channel, 4-GHz sampling rate), and the second one was based on a constant fraction discriminator (CFD) connected to a time-to-digital converter (TDC, 5-ps resolution). A new graphical interface to monitor the electronic devices and to perform the online calculations of energy was developed using MFC C++. The second system based on microchannel plate (time-of-flight) and silicon detectors for the determination of beam energy and the type of accelerated particles was also used. The beam current measurements were carried out with two different sensors. The first sensor is a rotating Faraday cup placed in front of the target, and the second one is an emission detector installed at the rear of the target. This system is now used in experiments for the synthesis of super-heavy elements at the U400M cyclotron of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR).

Cite article as:
S. Motycak, L. Krupa, . et al., "A New Beam Diagnostic System for the MASHA Setup", Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters, 13 (5), 586-590 (2016)