With the aid of the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation package a new detection system has been designed for the focal plane of the recoil separator VASSILISSA situated at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, Dubna. GABRIELA (Gamma Alpha Beta Recoil Investigations with the Electromagnetic Analyser VASSILISSA) has been optimised to detect the arrival of reaction products and their subsequent radioactive decays involving the emission of alpha- and beta-particles, fission fragments, gamma- and X-rays, and conversion electrons. The new detector system is described and the results of the first commissioning experiments are presented.
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0602010,
title = {GABRIELA : a new detector array for gamma-ray and conversion electron spectroscopy of transfermium elements},
author = {K. Hauschild and A. V. Yeremin and A. Lopez-Martens and O. Dorvaux and A. V. Belozerov and C. Briancon and M. L. Chelnokov and V. I. Chepigin and S. A. Garcia-Santamaria and V. A. Gorshkov and F. Hanappe and A. P. Kabachenko and A. Korichi and O. N. Malyshev and Yu. Ts. Oganessian and A. G. Popeko and N. Rowley and A. V. Shutov and L. Stuttge and A. I. Svirikhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0602010},
year = {2007}
}