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Depth profiling of residual activity of U237 fragments as a range verification technique for U238 primary ion beam

I. Strašík, V. Chetvertkova, E. Mustafin, M. Pavlovič, and A. Belousov
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 15, 071001 – Published 3 July 2012

Abstract

Experimental and simulation data concerning fragmentation of U238 ion beam in aluminum, copper, and stainless-steel targets with the initial energy 500 and 950MeV/u are collected in the paper. A range-verification technique based on depth profiling of residual activity is presented. The irradiated targets were constructed in the stacked-foil geometry and analyzed using gamma-ray spectroscopy. One of the purposes of these experiments was depth profiling of residual activity of induced nuclides and projectile fragments. Among the projectile fragments, special attention is paid to the U237 isotope that has a range very close to the range of the primary U238 ions. Therefore, the depth profiling of the U237 isotope can be utilized for experimental verification of the U238 primary-beam range, which is demonstrated and discussed in the paper. The experimental data are compared with computer simulations by FLUKA, SRIM, and ATIMA, as well as with complementary experiments.

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  • Received 18 October 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.071001

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I. Strašík1, V. Chetvertkova1,2, E. Mustafin1, M. Pavlovič3, and A. Belousov1,4

  • 1GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstrasse 1, D64291 Darmstadt, Germany
  • 2IAP Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 3FEI STU, Ilkovičova 3, SK-81219 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  • 4Technische Universität Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 5, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany

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Vol. 15, Iss. 7 — July 2012

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