Performance test of the MAIKo active target
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/ Authors
T. Furuno, T. Kawabata, H. J. Ong, S. Adachi, Y. Ayyad, T. Baba, Y. Fujikawa, T. Hashimoto, K. Inaba, Y. Ishii
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S. Kabuki, H. Kubo, Y. Matsuda, Y. Matsuoka, T. Mizumoto, T. Morimoto, M. Murata, T. Sawano, T. Suzuki, A. Takada, J. Tanaka, I. Tanihata, T. Tanimori, D. T. Tran, M. Tsumura, H. D. Watanabe
/ Abstract
A new active target named MAIKo (Mu-PIC based Active target for Inverse Kinematics$_{\circ}$) has been developed at Kyoto University and Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University. MAIKo is suited for missing-mass spectroscopy of unstable nuclei at forward scattering angles in inverse kinematics. MAIKo consists of a time projection chamber (TPC), which incorporates a micro-pixel chamber ($μ$-PIC) as the electron multiplication and collection system. In MAIKo, the medium gas also plays the role of a reaction target, thus allowing detection of low-energy recoil particles with high position resolution. The MAIKo TPC was commissioned with He(93%)+iso-C$_{4}$H$_{10}$(7%) and He(93%)+CO$_{2}$(7%) mixture gasses at 430 hPa. The gas gain and the angular resolution of MAIKo were evaluated with an alpha source and a $^{4}$He beam at 56 MeV. The TPC was stably operated up to 1000-kcps beam intensity. A tracking algorithm using the Hough transform method has been developed to analyze scattering events. An angular resolution of 1.3$^{\circ}$ was achieved for scattered $^{4}$He particles.