Magister Scientiae - MSc / The aim of nuclear structure physics is to study the interplay between singleparticle and collective degrees of freedom in nuclei and to explain how nuclei get excited and decay under di erent external conditions, such as strong electric and magnetic elds. If nuclei absorb a large amount of energy and angular momentum, like in a scattering reaction when you bombard a target that is in the ground state with a projectile at high bombarding energies, the energy from the projectile gets transfered to the target and vice versa, hence both projectile and target may get excited. During the de-excitation process nuclei may release the energy in a form of electromagnetic radiation (gamma rays) which carries angular momentum. The atomic nucleus is a many-body system, whose structure is de ned in terms of interactions between protons and neutrons. In nature there are only around 300 stable isotopes [1]. They are all in their ground states (although some are in a low-energy excited isomeric state with a long lifetime). To study excited states in these nuclei one needs to provide energy to the system. In addition, there are some 3000 unstable nuclei, most of which do not exist in nature. Many have been produced and studied in research laboratories, and there could be more than 3000 other unstable nuclei that can in principle exist in astrophysical environments, but have not yet been synthesized on Earth [1].

The purpose of the SCRIT project is to determine size and shape of short-lived and rarely-produced nuclei by elastic electron scattering, which is the best probe for the structure studies, for the first time. In traditional electron scattering, a solid target having an order of 1023 nuclei/cm^2 is normally used, which is not possible for short-lived and rarely-produced nuclei. In this project a Self Containing Radioactive Isotope Target scheme (SCRIT) is going to be employed. This innovative ion-trap method is shown to be a way to make measurements with a very small amount of nuclei, an order of only 106 nuclei. In order to determine the absolute cross section for elastic electron scattering for structure study, the simulates measurement of the bremsstrahlung from the trapped nuclei is required. Since the bremsstrahlung cross section for a nucleus of the atomic number Z is well know, the precise measurement of the bremsstrahlung provides the luminosity. My theme in this SCRIT project was a construction of a bremsstrahlung luminosity monitor. It consists of a position monitor for measuring the spatial distribution of bremsstrahlung and a Pb-glass Cerenkov detector for energy measurement. My efforts have been mainly devoted to the construction of a position monitor system using fiber scintillators. The construction of the position monitor was divided into five parts; detector construction, support construction, trigger detector construction, software programming, software testing and detector tests. The position monitor consists of two sets of fiber scintillation detectors. Each of them uses 16 fibers, Bicron BCF-10 with a cross section of 2x2mm^2, optically coupled to a multi-anode photomultiplier, (Hamamatsu H6568-10). The position monitor can measure the XY distribution of bremsstrahlung. Strictly speaking, the fiber detector detects not bremsstrahlung directly but electrons and/or positrons by pair creation of bremsstrahlung in a materials. The data acquisition system has been programmed in NI LabVIEW. The software is an advanced X/Y-coordinate counting system, which can additionally preform functions as save data to file and 3D-plot to determine the spreading of the bremsstrahlung luminosity. The results can be saved and transferred online to a server so that is possible to access the data from anywhere. The system has been tested using beta rays from 90Sr source. The results of the test shown that the detectors can detect minimum ionizing particle, i.e. electrons and positrons. The detector and software testings shows that the system is ready to use for luminosity measurements at SCRIT experiment. This system I constructed surely provides a new and useful information for the SCRIT experiments. / SCRIT Project

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22246号 / 理博第4560号 / 新制||理||1655(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 永江 知文, 教授 田中 貴浩, 教授 萩野 浩一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

<p> In nuclear astrophysics, there are still undiscovered areas involving unstable nuclei, like the nucleosynthesis in exploding stars. The unstable nuclei are extremely difficult to produce in the laboratory for study since they decay away quickly once they are formed. To make the unstable nuclei available in the laboratory, Canada has built one of the best facilities in the world for nuclear astrophysics studies with radioactive beams, called TRIUMF-ISAC. Its recent upgrade to ISAC-2 can produce even heavier radioactive beams with higher energy. To fully utilize the ISAC-2 facility, a high-segmented HPGe γ-ray detector-TIGRESS, has been developed to study exotic nuclei using the well-established technique of Coulomb Excitation.</p> <p> As an essential part of the TIGRESS facility, auxiliary detectors, such as silicon detectors, are used to improve the sensitivity of the experiments through Doppler correction. Two types of silicon detectors will be used. One is the CD-shaped double-sided silicon strip detector, which is the topic of this thesis. The other one is the silicon barrel detector. This thesis will discuss the computer simulations and experimental tests of the CD detector.</p> <p> Simulations were made using a simulation toolkit GEANT4, which was run under the Linux system. The goal was to test the hypothesis that measurements of the energies of heavy ions in Coulomb excitation may improve the Doppler correction by constraining the scattering location in a thick target. To test the performance of the simulated CD detector, simple simulations were performed for shooting calibration alpha particles from an 241Am source first directly onto the CD and second through a thin target onto the CD. The goal of additional simulations was to attempt to determine the corresponding scattering depth in a thick target by putting an energy cut on the spectrum of the scattered beam detected in the CD. These simulation results verify the possibility of such localization, though the resolution is not very good.</p> <p> Experimental tests for the CD detector are aimed to obtain the energy resolution for each strip element of the CD and to have at least 8 channels instrumented in our test lab before this detector is sent to TIGRESS facility. The test station including electronics and detector systems and all results from initial tests are described in detail in this thesis.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Le noyau est généralement décrit comme un ensemble de protons et de neutrons liés dans un potentiel de champ moyen. Cependant afin d'obtenir une meilleure description, il convient de tenir compte des interactions locales dont principalement l'appariement. Les appariements neutron-neutron et proton-proton sont assez bien étudiés alors que ce n'est pas le cas de l'appariement neutron-proton. Celui-ci peut être soit isovectoriel similaire à l'appariement nn/pp, soit isoscalaire et donc dans ce cas vraiment méconnu. La surliaison des noyaux N=Z pourrait être une manifestation de l'appariement np.Nous avons effectué l'étude de l'appariement np par réactions de transfert de paires np. Dans ce cas il est attendu que la section efficace de transfert de paires np soit augmentée en présence d'un appariement np important. L'appariement np devrait être important dans les noyaux N=Z avec des orbitales de J élevé. Or, des faisceaux de ces noyaux ne sont accessibles que depuis le développement des installations de faisceaux radioactifs.Nous avons effectué notre expérience au GANIL (Caen) avec un montage permettant une détection des produits issus de la réaction de transfert (p, ³ He). Cette réaction met en jeu à la fois des paires np isovectorielles et isoscalaires. Nous avons utilisé des faisceaux de ⁵⁶ Ni et de ⁵²Fe permettant d'observer l'évolution de l'appariement np avec l'occupation de la couche 0f7/2.Tout d'abord, nous avons analysé les données issues de la réaction ⁵⁶Ni(p,d)⁵⁵Ni et extrait des résultats que nous avons comparé à ceux existants. Cette démarche a permis de valider la procédure d'analyse des données.Après analyse des données issues de la réaction ⁵⁶Ni(p,3He)⁵⁴Co, nous avons extrait les populations des états du ⁵⁴Co qui donnent des informations sur l'intensité relative des deux types d'appariement np pour le noyau ⁵⁶Ni et montrent que l'appariement np isovectoriel est dominant dans ce noyau.De plus, dans le cadre d'un développement d'un futur détecteur de particules chargées, un travail de R&D sur la discrimination des particules légères par la forme des signaux a été réalisé et est présenté. / A nucleus is described as a set of independent neutrons and protons linked by a mean-field potential. However, in order to have a better description one needs to take in account some residual interactions such as pairing. Neutron-neutron and proton-proton pairings are well-studied but neutron-proton pairing is not well-known. np pairing can be isovector pairing such as nn and pp pairing or isoscalar which is yet unknown. Overbinding of N=Z nuclei could be a manifestation of np pairing.We have studied np pairing through transfer reactions. In this case, the cross-section of np pair transfer is expected to be enhanced in the presence of important np pairing. np pairing is expected to be important in N=Z nuclei with high J orbitals. Since the development of radioactive beam facilities, such beams are only available.The experiment was performed at GANIL with an efficient set-up so as to detect products from the (p,³He) transfer reaction. This reaction is affected by isovector and isoscalar np pairing. We used ⁵⁶Ni and ⁵²Fe beams so as to see the effect of the occupancy of 0f7/2 shell on the np pairing.First, we analysed the data from the ⁵⁶Ni(p,d)⁵⁵Ni reaction and we compared the results with the literature to validate analysis procedure.After analysing data from the ⁵⁶Ni(p,3He)⁵⁴Co reaction and extracting the population of the various states of ⁵⁴Co, we obtained information about the relative intensity between isoscalar and isovector np pairing in ⁵⁶Ni showing the predominance of isovector np pairing in this nucleus .Moreover, in the framework of developing a new charged particle detector, R&D on the discrimination of light nuclei using pulse shape analysis was performed and is presented.