The FIRST experiment at GSI: Detector performances with a 400 MeV/u 12C beam

Abou Haidar Z;Agodi C;Alvarez M. A. G;Aumann T;Balestra F;Battistoni G;Bocci A;Böhlen T. T;Boudard A;Brunetti A;Carpinelli M;Cirrone G. A. P.;Cortés Giraldo M. A;Cuttone G;De Napoli M;Durante M;Fernández García J. P;Finck C;Gallardo M. I;GOLOSIO, BRUNO;Iarocci E;Iazzi F;Ickert G;Introzzi R;Juliani .;Krimmer J.;Kurz N.;Labalme M.;Lavagno A.;Leifels Y.;Le Févre A.;Leray S.;Marchetto F.;Monaco V.;Morone M. C.;Nicolosi D.;Oliva P.;Paoloni A.;Patera V.;Piersanti L.;Pleskac R.;Quesada J. M.;Randazzo N.;Romano F.;Rossi D.;Rosso V.;Rousseau M.;Sacchi R.;Sala P.;Sarti A.;Scheidenberger C.;Schuy C.;Sciubba A.;Sfienti C.;Simon H.;Sipala V.;Spiriti E.;Stuttge L.;Tropea S.;Younis H.

2013-01-01

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Abstract

FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) is an experiment aimed at the measurement of double-differential cross sections, with respect to kinetic energy and scattering polar angle, of nuclear fragmentation processes in the energy range between 100 and 1000 MeV/u. The experiment was performed with the SIS accelerator at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany). During August 2011 a first set of data was collected using a 400 MeV/u 12C ion beam on carbon and gold targets. We present a description of the experimental apparatus and some preliminary results from the data acquisition and from the data analysis.