Speaker
Riccardo Raabe
(Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, K.U.Leuven)
Description
Plans for in-ring nuclear structure studies using TSR The peculiar characteristics of ion beams orbiting in a storage ring offer interesting opportunities for nuclear structure studies. Nuclear reactions would exploit the superior energy resolution which could be achieved by the combination of a cooled beam and the use of a gas jet target. This would allow detailed measurements on nuclei where the density of states is high. Possibly, the use of the ring bend as a separator may help identifying transfer reactions to unbound states, which occur in light nuclei close to the drip lines. Beta-delayed light-ion emission has also been used to characterise those systems. In this case the main experimental limit is normally represented by the small relative momentum of the fragments. In the storage ring the problem would be overcome as the decay takes place in flight, within a narrow cone around the circulating ion beams. We will present possible flagship experiments for the different techniques.
