DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) at the new FAIR-NUSTAR facility

This contribution describes DESPEC [1] (DEcay SPECtroscopy) which together with HISPEC [2] constitutes one of the proposed and accepted joint experiments of NuSTAR. Decay studies of implanted activities will be vital for our understanding of nuclear structure and astrophysics far from stability where FAIR will produce the most exotic beams of nuclei with short half-lives. Decay studies of isomeric levels is also a central part of the experimental plan. Another very interesting application of DESPEC is to work in combination with HISPEC for recoil tagging experiments. Last year we described the scientific motivation for DESPEC. In the present report we will rather focus on the “core” experimental set-up which is presented in Fig.1. Most of the experiments planned at DESPEC will involve radioactive beams from