Installation and commissioning of EURICA – Euroball-RIKEN Cluster Array

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms Vol. 317; pp. 649 - 652
• Main Authors: Söderström, P.-A., Nishimura, S., Doornenbal, P., Lorusso, G., Sumikama, T., Watanabe, H., Xu, Z.Y., Baba, H., Browne, F., Go, S., Gey, G., Isobe, T., Jung, H.-S., Kim, G.D., Kim, Y.-K., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Kwon, Y.K., Li, Z., Moschner, K., Nakao, T., Nishibata, H., Nishimura, M., Odahara, A., Sakurai, H., Schaffner, H., Shimoda, T., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Zs, Werner, V., Wu, J., Yagi, A., Yoshinaga, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15-12-2013
• Subjects: [formula omitted]-Decay; [formula omitted]-Ray spectroscopy; Arrays; Clusters; Commissioning; Counting; Detectors; Fragmentation; Fragmentation facilities; Germanium detectors; Nuclei; Silicon detectors; Spectroscopy; Silicon detectors; β-Decay; Germanium detectors; γ-Ray spectroscopy; Fragmentation facilities
• ISSN: 0168-583X; 1872-9584
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.03.018

EURICA is a project at RIKEN Nishina Center aimed at studying a wide range of exotic nuclei through β-decay measurements and high-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy. The setup is located behind the BigRIPS fragment separator and the ZeroDegree spectrometer at the RIBF. EURICA consists of the HPGe cluster detectors from the previous Euroball and RISING projects, together with double-sided silicon-strip detectors for β-decay counting and lifetime measurements. In total, this setup provides us with the possibility to study several aspects of the exotic nuclei produced at the RIBF.