Two-proton emissions from the excited states of 17,18Ne, 28P and 28,29S were investigated experimentally by the radioactive beams bombarding on the 197Au target via the Coulomb excitation. The complete-kinematics measurements were actualized by the stacks of silicon-strip detectors and CsI+PIN array detectors. The invariant mass of final systems as well as the relative momentum, opening angle, and relative energy of the two emitted protons was reconstructed under the framework of relativ istic kinematics. Visible proton-proton correlations were observed in these systems. The mechanisms of two-proton emission were analyzed in a simple schematic model, in which the extreme decay modes like He cluster emission, three-body 2 phase-space decay, and two-body sequential decay were taken into account. With the help of Monte-Carlo simulations, the two protons emitted from the 6.15 MeV excited state of Ne and the excited states in the energy region of 9.6–10.4 MeV of S, 18 29 respectively, exhibited prominent features of2 He cluster decay while for the other cases, no obvious diproton emissions were observed.
LIN ChengJian1, XU XinXing1, JIA HuiMing1, YANG Feng1, JIA Fei1, WU ZhenDong1, ZHANG ShiTao1, LIU ZuHua1, ZHANG HuanQiao1, XU HuShan2, SUN ZhiYu2, WANG JianSong2, HU ZhengGuo2, WANG Meng2, CHEN RuoFu2, ZHANG XueYing2, LI Chen2, LEI XiangGuo2, XU ZhiGuo2, XIAO GuoQing2 & ZHAN WenLong2 1China Institute of Atomic Energy, P. O. Box 275(10), Beijing 102413, China
Proton(p) and two-proton(2p) emissions from the proton-rich nuclei with 10≤Z≤20 have been explored by the in-fight decay and implantation decay methods, respectively, in a series of experiments at the HIRFL-RIBLL facility. The in-flight 2p emissions from the excited states of ^(28,29)S/^(26,27)P and ^(17,18)Ne were studied by complete-kinematics measurements. Mechanisms of 2p decay and related p-p correlations have been explored. Obvious 2p correlated emissions have been observed in the cases of ^(28,29)S but not in ^(27,28)P, indicating the 2p halo plays an important role in the diproton emission. In the ^(17,18)Ne cases, a small 2p opening angles were deduced by the HBT analyses, implying the BCS-BEC crossover may occur in the dilute nuclear matter. Moreover,^(27)S/^(26)P/^(25)Si,^(22)Si/^(20)Mg,^(23)Si/^(22)Al/^(21)Mg,^(24)Si/^(23)Al, and ^(36,37)Ca were implanted in a thin double-sided-silicon-strip detector and their β-delayed p and 2p decays have been measured by a surrounding silicon detector array under the continuous-beam mode. Important information on the nuclear spectroscopy, such as energy, lifetime, branching-ratio, and so on, has been extracted, which helps us to understand the nuclear structures of proton-rich exotic nuclei close to the drip-line.
The experiments of two-alpha emission from 17,18Ne excited levels were performed at the HIRFL-RIBLL facility of the Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou. The beams of 17Ne at the energy of 49.9 MeV/u and 18Ne at 51.8 MeV/u bombarded a 197Au target to populate excited states of 17,18Ne via Coulomb excitation. Complete kinematics measurements were achieved by the detectors of a silicon strip and CsI+PIN array. The experimental results combined with simple MC simulations show the characteristic of sequential two-alpha emission via 14O excited states for 18Ne. The results of two-alpha emission from 17Ne are preliminary and need further analyses.
The quadrant silicon detector, a kind of passivated implanted planar silicon detector with quadrant structure on the junction side, gained its wide application in charged particle detection. In this paper, the manufacturing procedure, performance test and results of the quadrant silicon detector developed recently at the China Institute of Atomic Energy are presented. The detector is about 300 μm thick with a 48 mm×48 mm active area.The leakage current under the full depletion bias voltage of-16 V is about 2.5 n A, and the rise time is better than160 ns. The energy resolution for a 5.157 Me V α-particle is around the level of 1%. Charge sharing effects between the neighboring quads, leading to complicated correlations between two quads, were observed when α particles illuminated on the junction side. It is explained as a result of distortion of the electric field of the inter-quad region.Such an event is only about 0.6% of all events and can be neglected in an actual application.
