The TITAN facility at TRIUMF has recently initiated a program of performing decay spectroscopy measurements in an electron-beam ion-trap (EBIT). The unique environment of the EBIT provides backing-free storage of the radioactive ions, while guiding charged decay particles from the trap centre via the strong magnetic field. This measurement technique is able to provide a significant increase in detection sensitivity for photons which result from radioactive decay. A brief overview of this device is presented, along with methods of improving the signal-to-background ratio for photon detection by reducing Compton scattered events, and eliminating vibrational noise.
@article{arxiv.1411.0026,
title = {Sensitivity Increases for the TITAN Decay Spectroscopy Program},
author = {K. G. Leach and A. Lennarz and A. Grossheim and C. Andreoiu and J. Dilling and D. Frekers and M. Good and S. Seeraji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0026},
year = {2015}
}
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