Radioactive Decay Station
Description
This working group will be focused on putting together a Radioactive Decay Station, likely to include capabilities for alpha, beta, gamma, and electron counting.
Conveners
The Conveners of this Working Group are:
Robert Grzywacz, ORNL/UT, rgrzywac at utk.edu
Sean Liddick, NSCL/MSU, liddick at nscl.msu.edu
Dariusz Seweryniak, ANL, seweryniak at anl.gov [Point of Contact]
Volker Werner, WNSL, volker.werner at yale.edu
Message from Conveners
Dear FRIB user,
Sensitive decay spectroscopy will be one of the primary discovery probes at FRIB.
It will characterize nuclear properties at the "frontiers" of
the chart of nuclides where new phenomena are expected.
The FRIB Radioactive Decay Station Working Group was
formed to promote and facilitate the design and construction of experimental apparatus,
which will take full advantage of the new and exciting opportunities provided by FRIB.
An efficient, state-of-the-art detection station(s) equipped with instruments capable of characterizing
various forms of radiation such as gamma rays, conversion electrons, beta particles, protons,
alpha particles and neutrons will be required for decay studies at FRIB. Its final implementation
will be shaped by the vast experience gathered with existing decay spectroscopy stations and will
be influenced by emerging technologies.
If you plan to carry out decay studies at FRIB we need your input to identify opportunities,
challenges and priorities in the years leading up to FRIB to assure that the best possible
detection system is constructed and ready for experiments as soon as FRIB becomes operational.
Please, contact one of the conveners listed above if you would like to become a member of the
group and actively participate in its work. The FRIB Equipment Meeting on the campus of Michigan
State University on February 20-22, 2010 will be an excellent forum to share your ideas and
voice your opinion.
Conveners: Call for Workshop Contributions
The FRIB decay station will be discussed during a one and
a half hour session which will start at 10:30 am on Sunday,
February 21. The session will consist of short presentations
describing the most important components of the decay station
and will be based on user contributions followed by a general
discussion.
If your future research at FRIB requires a decay station and you would
like to contribute to its design and construction, please, email us a one
page write-up and two PowerPoint slides describing your ideas.
In your description include brief physics motivation, technical overview,
and current status of your project. Information about a cost estimate, funding,
and collaboration members would be also helpful. Your contribution will be made
available on our
website. We will do our best to include all contributions in
the program of the session but in view of very limited time some consolidation might
be necessary. We anticipate that a follow up meeting dedicated exclusively to the
FRIB decay station will take place later this year where all ideas will be
discussed in detail.
Equipment Workshop Questionnaire
The Radioactive Decay Station Working Group's Questionnaire for the February FRIB Equipment workshop is linked here.
For More Information
The Radioactive Decay Station Working Group has a
website at http://groups.nscl.msu.edu/fribdecaystation/
For more information contact the Conveners.