https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327913006
GEANT4 simulations for γ-ray detector array design for inplasma β-decays studies of nuclear astrophysics interest
1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS), Catania, Italy
2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (INFN-LNL), Legnaro, Italy
* e-mail: eugenia.naselli@lns.infn.it
Published online: 22 March 2023
The PANDORA project aims to investigate, by a new experimental approach, the β-decays lifetimes of isotopes of nuclear astrophysics interest as a function of thermodynamic conditions of a laboratory plasma able to mimic some stellar-like conditions. A γ-ray detection system was designed by GEANT4 simulations to tag the in-plasma β-decays via the γ-rays emitted from the excited states of the daughter nuclei. The feasibility of PANDORA, in terms of significance levels, was checked by a “virtual experiment run”, also investigating the sensitivity for discriminating among different theoretical predictions.
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