Commissioning of the Solenoid Spectrometer for Nuclear AstroPhysics at Notre Dame

Construction of the Solenoid Spectrometer for Nuclear AstroPhysics (SSNAP) has been progressing in preparation for studies of nucleon transfer reactions at the University of Notre Dame. As a helical orbit spectrometer, it will improve our ability to measure transfer reactions. These studies facilitate extraction of nuclear structure information critical to determining reaction rates in many astrophysical processes, such as novae bursts. SSNAP will be used to measure nuclear cross sections, branching ratios, and other spectroscopic properties of exotic nuclei. SSNAP uses position-sensitive silicon detectors set on-axis in one of the TwinSol solenoids. This talk will discuss updates to the spectrometer along with details from a recent commissioning run completed with ¹²C(d,p) in normal kinematics.