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Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Detectors for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies With Gamma Beams
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Working Paper
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear Experiment
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Abstract
Gamma-Beams at the HIgS facility in the USA and anticipated at the ELI-NP facility, now constructed in Romania, present unique new opportunities to advance research in nuclear astrophysics; not the least of which is resolving open questions in oxygen formation during stellar helium burning via a precise measurement of the 12C(a,g) reaction. Time projection chamber (TPC) detectors operating with low pressure gas (as an active target) are ideally suited for such studies. We review the progress of the current research program and plans for the future at the HI{\gamma}S facility with the optical readout TPC (O-TPC) and the development of an electronic readout TPC for the ELI-NP facility (ELITPC).
Comment: Contribution Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA XVII), June 11 - June 14 , 2018, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor