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The unstable nuclei produced at CERN’s ISOLDE facility range from isotopes of helium all the way to thorium, with lifetimes between milliseconds to thousands of years, and intensities from several ions/second to billions of ions/second. They have been used for research in such versatile fields as nuclear structure, fundamental interactions, or material science. This wealth of nuclei and research topics has made ISOLDE home to several dozen permanent and travelling setups, at which many state-of-the art detectors and imaging techniques have been developed or adopted. Recent examples include fast scintillating crystals readout by Si PMs for fast gamma spectroscopy, optical time projection chamber to look for rare particle-emission decays, multireflection-time of flight device (MR-TOF) for mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy, Si strip detectors inside a Tesla-field solenoid for astrophysical studies, or Timepix detectors in material-science research.
The talk will introduce the requirements and challenges for detectors used in experiments with unstable nuclei, and will show recent examples of detection systems across the ISOLDE scientific topics and experimental setups.
Burkhard Schmidt (EP-DT)