Bulletin of the American Physical Society
5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 63, Number 12
Tuesday–Saturday, October 23–27, 2018; Waikoloa, Hawaii
Session HA: Conference Experience for Undergraduates Poster Session (2:00pm - 3:45pm)
2:00 PM,
Friday, October 26, 2018
Hilton
Room: Grand Promenade
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.HAW.HA.51
Abstract: HA.00051 : Measuring Beta Decays of Proton-Rich Nuclides to Study Explosive Nucleosynthesis*
Presenter:
Jordan Stomps
(Michigan State University)
Authors:
Tamas Budner
(Michigan State Univ)
Marco Cortesi
(NSCL)
Moshe Friedman
(Michigan State Univ)
Cathleen E Fry
(Michigan State Univ)
Brent E Glassman
(Michigan State Univ)
Madison Harris
(Michigan State University)
Joseph Heideman
(University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
Molly Janasik
(Michigan State Univ)
David Perez-Loureiro
(Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Emmanuel Pollacco
(CEA - Saclay)
MIchael J Roosa
(Michigan State Univ)
Jordan Stomps
(Michigan State University)
Jason Surbrook
(Michigan State Univ)
Pranjal Tiwari
(Michigan State Univ)
Christopher Lars Henrik Wrede
(Michigan State Univ)
John Yurkon
(Michigan State University)
Our team has developed a system to detect radiation associated with the beta decays of proton-rich nuclides at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The experimental data acquired will be applied to the field of astrophysics, specifically to the rates of nuclear reactions driving explosions on the surfaces of accreting white dwarf and neutron stars in binary systems. The detection system consists of a custom designed gas-filled charged-particle detector surrounded by the existing Segmented Germanium Array for gamma-ray detection. To complement the detector, a data acquisition and display system is required. The capability to monitor the online data is essential so that researchers can make decisions based on preliminary analysis as data arrives. Using an in-house software called SpecTcl, we have utilized experiment specific traits to customize a system for acquisition and analysis. This detector was successfully commissioned at NSCL in May 2018, and is ready for science experiments. The SpecTcl system was used to sort and display the online data during commissioning.
*This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award Nos. PHY- 1102511 and PHY-1565546 and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Award No. DE-SC0016052.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.HAW.HA.51
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