Monte-Carlo simulation of ion distributions in a gas cell for multinucleon transfer reaction products at LENSHIAF spectrometer

Subjects: Physics >> Nuclear Physics submitted time 2023-06-24

Wang, Yongsheng Huang, Wenxue Tian, Yulin Wang, Junying Li, Cheng Zhang, Fengshou Zhao, Kai Zhou, Xiaohong Xu, Hushan

Abstract： The multinucleon transfer (MNT) reaction is one promising way to produce neutron-rich heavy nuclei and even super heavy nuclei and attracts more and more attentions theoretically and experimentally. A low energy nuclear structure spectrometer called LENSHIAF specific to the MNT reactions will be designed and constructed in the ongoing big project HIAF in China. In the LENSHIAF spectrometer, the most challenge part is how to collect and stop efficiently the high-energy MNT products into the gas cell. By using Monte-Carlo method, the geometry of the gas cell, the thickness of the titanium window/degrader, and the optimal gas pressure filled in the gas cell have been calculated and estimated. For neutron-rich nuclei around N=126 from ¹³⁶Xe+¹⁹⁸Pt reaction, with a titanium window/degrader with a thickness of 2.5–3.5 um, a cylindrical helium gas cell with a length of 0.6 m and a diameter of 1.2 m can satisfy the requirements to stop the target-like fragments. For heavier and super heavy nuclei from ²³⁸U+²³⁸U reaction, with a 5–8 um thick titanium window/degrader, the cylindrical gas cell has to be as big as a length of at least 1.6 m and a diameter of 1.6 m.

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