Purpose With the aim of determining mass yield distributions of primary fission products,a one-arm spectrometer was developed based on kinetic energy and time-of-flight correlation measurement technique.Methods An axi...Purpose With the aim of determining mass yield distributions of primary fission products,a one-arm spectrometer was developed based on kinetic energy and time-of-flight correlation measurement technique.Methods An axial grid ionization chamber(GIC)was designed for energy detecting.In order to minimize energy losses and straggling,a thin silicon nitride film with a thickness of 100 nm was performed as the entrance window of the GIC.The energy resolution is 0.38%for 80 MeV ^(63)Cu particles.Two-timing detectors based on the detection of secondary emission electrons by microchannel plates(MCPs)constitute the time pick-off system,and the time-of-flight resolution is better than 200 ps(FWHM)measured with a ^(241)Amαsource.With a flight path length of 47.6 cm,the path length resolution is 0.21%.Results and conclusion The first result of mass distribution from ^(252)Cf spontaneous fission was reported.Energy losses of fragments in dead layers of the spectrometer were corrected event-by-event depend on the Monte Carlo calculation.The mass resolution for light fission fragments peak A107 amu is 1.3 aum.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 11790322.
文摘Purpose With the aim of determining mass yield distributions of primary fission products,a one-arm spectrometer was developed based on kinetic energy and time-of-flight correlation measurement technique.Methods An axial grid ionization chamber(GIC)was designed for energy detecting.In order to minimize energy losses and straggling,a thin silicon nitride film with a thickness of 100 nm was performed as the entrance window of the GIC.The energy resolution is 0.38%for 80 MeV ^(63)Cu particles.Two-timing detectors based on the detection of secondary emission electrons by microchannel plates(MCPs)constitute the time pick-off system,and the time-of-flight resolution is better than 200 ps(FWHM)measured with a ^(241)Amαsource.With a flight path length of 47.6 cm,the path length resolution is 0.21%.Results and conclusion The first result of mass distribution from ^(252)Cf spontaneous fission was reported.Energy losses of fragments in dead layers of the spectrometer were corrected event-by-event depend on the Monte Carlo calculation.The mass resolution for light fission fragments peak A107 amu is 1.3 aum.