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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 34: Postersitzung
HK 34.50: Poster
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 14:00–16:00, Poster C3
RPC prototype development for the neutron time-of-flight detector NeuLAND for R3B and EXL at FAIR — •Dominic Rossi for the R3B collaboration — Institut für Kernchemie, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D-55128 Mainz
The high resolution neutron time-of-flight spectrometer NeuLAND is under development for the study of reactions involving emission of projectile-like neutrons. Such reactions will be investigated in inverse kinematics with the R3B and EXL experimental setups at the future FAIR facility, where high-energy radioactive beams will be available. NeuLAND is planned to use Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) to detect charged particles (mainly protons at various energies) produced by the interaction of high-energy neutrons with converter material. While a feasibility experiment has been carried out using two existing RPC prototypes from the FOPI collaboration and from LIP (Coimbra, Portugal), current development at GSI includes the design and production of a prototype with a structure adapted to the needs of NeuLAND, which differ in several aspects from those of existing RPC detection systems. - Supported by BMBF (06MZ222I) and EC (EURONS 506065).