[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2019-01-24 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Gwen Grinyer (U Regina)

Title:     Active targets and TPCs for (low-energy) nuclear physics experiments

Abstract: The Active Target and Time Projection Chamber (ACTAR TPC) is an ambitious European project whose goal is to design and construct a gas-filled detection system to study nuclear reactions and exotic decays of rare isotopes produced furthest from stability.  The core detection system will consist of a micro-pattern gaseous detector coupled to a highly pixelated pad plane with a pitch of 2x2 mm2.  Both the channel density (25 channels/cm2) and total number of electronics channels (16384) are the highest that have been achieved by any nuclear physics detector to date. An introduction to gaseous detectors in nuclear and particle physics, an overview of our project including some of the challenges associated with constructing this device as well as the exciting physics program for this new detector will be described in detail.



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