A target chamber for the study of low-energy reactions

A scattering chamber, biased by as much as 200 kV, has been designed, built and used successfully to accelerate low-energy beams with good energy resolution from the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory atomic-beam polarized-ion source and minitandem accelerator. It is equipped to contain charged-particle and gamma-ray detectors which are used to detect reaction products with high resolution. In operation, the analog signals are sent via fiber-optic lines to signal-handling electronics at ground potential.