Initial Test of the Ten-Inch Manipulator-Based Short Lived Isotope Counting System

POSTER

Abstract

The Short-Lived Isotope Counting System (SLICS) is designed to measure cross sections for astrophysically relevant light-ion reactions and energies. The dE-E phoswich detector telescope, which identifies beta particles from decaying 20 ms to 20 s half-life reaction product nuclei, has been redesigned to fit in a Ten-Inch Manipulator (TIM) for insertion in the OMEGA-60 and OMEGA-EP target chambers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. In the first test of the new design, 8Li decays were detected after the 7Li(d, p)8Li reaction was triggered by a pulse of OMEGA-EP target normal sheath acceleration (TSNA) deuterons. This poster presents a description the new design and preliminary test results.

*This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy [National Nuclear Security Administration] University of Rochester "National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program" under Award Number(s) DE-NA0004144.

Presenters

  • Andrew O Bo

    • Houghton University

Authors

  • Andrew O Bo

    • Houghton University

  • Samuel Plymale

    • Houghton University

  • Dante Vara

    • Houghton University

  • Mark Yuly

    • Houghton University
    • SUNY Geneseo

  • Charles G Freeman

    • SUNY Geneseo

  • George Alexander Marcus

    • SUNY Geneseo

  • Stephen J Padalino

    • SUNY Geneseo

  • Chad J Forrest

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Arnold K Schwemmlein

    • University of Rochester

  • Ben Stanley

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • Christian Stoeckl

    • University of Rochester

  • Panagiotis Gastis

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)