Lund-York-Cologne Calorimeter (LYCCA)
Project description
LYCCA is a core detector of the HISPEC experiment within NUSTAR-FAIR. The main objective is to uniquely identify exotic nuclear reaction products by their mass A and charge Z. These nuclei are produced in nuclear reactions induced by relativistic radioactive ion beams. These beams are going to be provided by the new Super-Fragment Separator. Typical kinetic energies of the reaction products of interest are some 100-300 MeV/u, which corresponds to some 30-40% of the speed of light. The identification of the exotic nuclei is based upon event-by-event time-of-flight, energy loss (ΔE), and total energy (E) measurements, eventually in conjunction with a magnetic spectrometer. R&D and provision of the ΔE-E detector modules is the main Swedish contribution to LYCCA.
Year
Team
Lund University
- Pavel Golubev, Team leder, Division of Nuclear Physics
- Dirk Rudolph, Division of Nuclear Physics
Universität zu Köln
- Peter Reiter, Institut für Kernphysik
- Stefan Thiel, Institut für Kernphysik
University of York
- Mike Bentley, Department of Physics
Core deliverables
- Thirty (30) LYCCA DSSSD-CsI ΔE-E detector modules (tailor-made)
- The LYCCA CsI read-out electronics (GSI-EE development)
- The LYCCA high- and low-voltage supplies (commercial NIM modules)
Total budget
Collaborations
- Lund University, Sweden
- Universität zu Köln, Germany
- University of York, United Kingdom
- GSI Darmstadt, Germany