Abstract
We discuss the reconstruction of low-energy nuclear reaction kinematics from charged-particle tracks in solenoidal spectrometers working in Active Target Time Projection Chamber mode. In this operation mode, reaction products are tracked within the active gas medium of the Active Target with a three dimensional space point cloud. We have inferred the reaction kinematics from the point cloud using an algorithm based on a linear quadratic estimator (Kalman filter). The performance of this algorithm has been evaluated using experimental data from nuclear reactions measured with the Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) detector.
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We thank D. Schumann, E. Maugeri and S. Heinitz from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) for providing the \(^{10}\)Be material. This material is based upon work supported by NSF’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation under award PHY-1565546. This material is also based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics and used resources of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which is a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility under Award No. DE-SC0000661 SOLARIS is funded by the DOE Office of Science under the FRIB Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02- 06CH11357 (Argonne). This research used resources of ANL’s ATLAS facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This work has received financial support from Xunta de Galicia (CIGUS Network of Research Centers). Y. A. acknowledges the support by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad through the Programmes “Ramón y Cajal” with the Grant No. RYC2019-028438-I.
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Ayyad, Y., Anthony, A.K., Bazin, D. et al. Kinematics reconstruction in solenoidal spectrometers operated in active target mode. Eur. Phys. J. A 59, 294 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01205-2
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