The european FAZIA initiative: a high-performance digital telescope array for heavy-ion studies
Abstract
The european Fazia collaboration aims at building a new modular array for charged product identification to be employed for heavy-ion studies. The elementary module of the array is a Silicon-Silicon-CsI telescope, optimized for ion identification also via pulse shape analysis. The achievement of top performances imposes specific electronics which has been developed by FAZIA and features high quality charge and current preamplifiers, coupled to fully digital front-end. During the initial R&D phase, original and novel solutions have been tested in prototypes, obtaining unprecedented ion identification capabilities. FAZIA is now constructing a demonstrator array consisting of about two hundreds telescopes arranged in a compact and transportable configuration. In this contribution, we mainly summarize some aspects studied by FAZIA to improve the ion identification. Then we will briefly discuss the FAZIA program centered on experiments to be done with the demonstrator. First results on the isospin dynamics obtained with a reduced set-up demonstrate well the performance of the telescope and represent a good starting point towards future investigations with both stable and exotic beams.
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@article{arxiv.1309.1336,
title = {The european FAZIA initiative: a high-performance digital telescope array for heavy-ion studies},
author = {G. Casini and S. Barlini and G. Pasquali and G. Pastore and M. Bini and S. Carboni and A. Olmi and S. Piantelli and G. Poggi and A. Stefanini and S. Valdre' and E. Bonnet and B. Borderie and R. Bougault and M. Bruno and A. Chbihi and M. Cinausero and M. Degerlier and P. Edelbruck and J. D. Frankland and F. Gramegna and D. Gruyer and M. Guerzoni and A. Kordjasz and T. Kozik and N. Le Neindre and O. Lopez and T. Marchi and P. Marini and L. Morelli and A. Ordine and M. Parlog and M. F. Rivet and E. Rosato and F. Salomon and G. Spadaccini and T. Twarog and E. Vient and M. Vigilante},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1336},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to conference proceedings of the 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2013) Journal-ref: 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2013), Firenze : Italy (2013)