GANIL-SPIRAL 2 facilities
  • Accelerators
  • Available beams
  • Experimental areas
    • ARIBE
    • D1
    • D2
    • D3-D6 / LISE
    • D5
    • DESIR
    • G1 / VAMOS
    • G2
    • G3
    • G4
    • IRRSUD
    • LIRAT
    • NFS – Neutrons for Science
    • S3 – Super Separator Spectrometer
  • Instrumentation
    • ACTAR TPC
    • AGATA
    • CHATEAU DE CRISTAL
    • DIAMANT
    • EXOGAM / EXOGAM2
    • FAZIA
    • INDRA
    • LPCTrap
    • MUST2
    • NEDA
    • PARIS
    • REGLIS3
    • S3 Low Energy Branch
    • SIRIUS

ACTAR TPC

Presentation

ACTAR TPC is a French project aiming at constructing a new-generation active target in order to study very rare nuclear processes and nuclei produced in very small quantities.

This state-of-the-art detector is able to record the charged particle trajectories using a pad plane composed of 128×128 pads of 2 mm side. Each pad is equipped with digital electronics, which permits to sample the active volume of ACTAR TPC into 8 Mega voxels, at a rate of 100 Hz. The active target will be used with low-intensity SPIRAL 1 beams and high energy fragmentation beams in order to study extreme phenomena in nuclear matter.

With its relatively small size, ACTAR TPC is meant to be easily transported to other facilities to exploit beams that cannot be produced at GANIL.

Scientific goals

ACTAR TPC@GANIL:

  • Physics of ACTAR TPC@GANIL concerns the study of excitation functions with very exotic nuclei, to perform spectroscopic studies beyond the drip line, and the excitation of very collective states such as giant resonances or cluster states.
  • It benefits from the use of the fast fragmentation beams of the LISE spectrometer for inelastic scattering studies
  • It benefits from the availability of post-accelerated radioactive SPIRAL1 ions-beams for resonant scattering and transfer reactions.
  • It can be coupled to a large variety of detectors such as MUST2 and FAZIA.

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals:
  • 4D-imaging of drip-line radioactivity by detecting proton emission from 54mNi pictured with ACTAR TPC, J. Giovinazzo et al., Nat. Commun 12, 4805 (2021),
  • ACTAR TPC performance with GET electronics, J. Giovinazzo, J. Pancin, J. Pibernat, T. Roger, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 953 (2020)
  • Validation of the energy-loss response of a particles in iC4H10 with ACTARSim, P. Konczykowski, B. Fernández-Dominguez, H. Alvarez-Pol, M. Caamaño, G.F. Grinyer, A.T. Laffoley, B. Mauss, J. Pancin, D. Pérez-Loureiro, and T. Roger, Nucl. Instr. And Methods A 927, 125 (2019),
  • Commissioning of the ACtive TARget and Time Projection Chamber (ACTAR TPC), B. Mauss et al., Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 940 (2019) 498–504
  • Metal-core pad-plane development for ACTAR TPC, J. Giovinazzo et al., Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 892 (2018) 114–121
  • Demonstrator Detection System for the Active Target and Time Projection Chamber (ACTAR TPC) Project, T. Roger et al., Nucl. Instr. And Methods A 895, 126 (2018)
  • GET: A generic and comprehensive electronics system for nuclear physics experiments, E.C. Pollacco et al., Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 887 (2018) 81–93
  • C.Rodriguez-Tajes et al. Nucl. Phys. A958, 246 (2017)
  • J.Giovinazzo et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 840, 15 (2016)
  • S.Bagchi et al. Phys. Lett. B 751, 371 (2015)
  • M.Vandebrouck et al. Phys. Rev. C 92, 024316 (2015)
  • S.Sambi et al. Eur. Phys. J. A 51, 25 (2015)
  • C.Rodriguez-Tajes et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 768, 179 (2014)
  • M.Vandebrouck et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032504 (2014)
  • J.Pancin et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 735, 532 (2014)
  • J.Pancin et al. Journal of Instrumentation 7, P01006 (2012)
  • T.Roger et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 638, 134 (2011)
  • T.Roger et al. Phys. Rev. C 79, 031603(R) (2009)
  • P.Roussel-Chomaz, Eur. Phys. J. A 42, 447 (2009)
  • M.Camaano et al. Phys. Rev. C 78, 044001 (2008)
  • I.Tanihata et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 192502 (2008)
  • C.Monrozeau et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 042501 (2008)
  • M.Caamano et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 062502 (2007)
  • C.E.Demonchy et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 583, 341 (2007)
Conference Proceedings:
  • 2P radioactivity of 67Kr, J. Giovinazzo et al., Mazurian lakes Conference 2019, Piaki, Poland, 1-7 sept. 2019
  • ACTAR TPC, T. Roger et at., International conference on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD19), 5-10 mai 2019, La Rochelle, France
  • The Active Target and Time Projection Chamber ACTAR TPC, T. Roger, EURISOL town meeting, 2018
  • MICROMEGAS calibration for ACTAR TPC , B. Mauss, T. Roger, J. Pancin, S. Damoy and G.F. Grinyer, EPJ Web Conferences, 174, 01010 (2018)
  • The Active Target and Time Projection Chamber ACTAR-TPC, T. Roger, colloque GANIL 2017
  • B.Mauss et al. MPGD 2015 to appear in EPJ Web of Conferences (2016)
  • M.Vandebrouck et al. JPS Conf. Proc. 6, 020016 (2015)
  • H.Akimune et al. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 436, 012010 (2013)
  • H.Savajols et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 266, 4583 (2008)
  • C.Monrozeau et al. Nucl. Phys. A 788, 182 (2007)
  • M.Caamano et al. Eur. Phys. J ST 150, 9 (2007)
  • C.E.Demonchy et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 573, 145 (2007)
  • W.Mittig et al. Eur. Phys. J A 25, s01, 263 (2005)
  • C.E.Demonchy et al. J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31, s1831 (2005)
  • W.Mittig et al. Nucl. Phys. A 722, C10 (2003)
Thesis:
  • Thomas Goigoux (CENBG): “Etude de la radioactivité deux-protons de 67Kr et développement d’une chambre à projection temporelle”, soutenue le 23/10/2017
  • Study of compression modes in 56Ni using an active target, S.Bagchi (2015)
  • First measurement of the isoscaler giant resonance in a neutron rich exotic nucleus 68Ni, M.Vandebrouck (2013)
  • Study of reactions induced by the halo nucleus 11Li in the active target MAYA, T.Roger (2009)
  • New experimental method dedicated to the study of collective modes in exotic nuclei, C.Monrozeau (2007)
  • Production and characterization of the 7H resonance, M.Caamano (2006)
  • Reaction studies and isobaric analogue states in the p+8He reaction with MAYA, C.Demonchy (2003)

Collaboration

  • GANIL
  • CENBG
  • University of Santiago de Compostella (Spain)
  • K.U. Leuven (Belgium)
  • IPNO
  • CEA/IRFU

Contact (GANIL)

Scientific coordinator: Thomas Roger – thomas.roger@ganil.fr

Technical coordinator: Julien Pancin – Julien.pancin@ganil.fr

ACTAR wiki page: http://wiki.ganil.fr/gap/ACTAR-TPC