Diamond Detectors for Longitudinal Properties of Pulsed Heavy-Ion Beams
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For the investigation of the dynamics of heavy-ion beams penetrating hot dense plasma at the Z6 area at GSI an experimental setup was developed, which allows for diagnosing a directly laser-heated plasma target, and measuring the charge state and energy loss of an ion beam after / in it [1, 2]. The varying energy loss of the ion beam in the target (solid—plasma—vacuum) is determined in a TOFlike technique, in which temporal shifts (of the UNILAC period of 9.224 ns) between individual ion micro pulses are recorded. Aiming at future experiments with indirectly heated plasma targets an ion stop detector was designed to match the high requirements for: repetition rate, time resolution, high ion& low lightsensitivity, and radiation hardness as well.
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