Thickness and uniformity analysis of thin and heat-resistant targets

Maria Fisichella; Franck Delaunay; Vittoria Capirossi; Federico Pinna; Daniela Calvo; Matteo Campostrini; Francesco Cappuzzello; Manuela Cavallaro; Felice Iazzi; Antonio Massara; Valentino Rigato; Martina Ursino

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202328501001

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EPJ Web of Conferences 285, 01001 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328501001

Thickness and uniformity analysis of thin and heat-resistant targets

Maria Fisichella¹^*, Franck Delaunay¹^,2^,3, Vittoria Capirossi⁴, Federico Pinna⁴, Daniela Calvo⁵, Matteo Campostrini⁶, Francesco Cappuzzello¹^,2, Manuela Cavallaro¹, Felice Iazzi⁵, Antonio Massara¹, Valentino Rigato⁶ and Martina Ursino¹ for the NUMEN collaboration

¹ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
³ LPC Caen, Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
⁴ Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
⁵ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
⁶ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Padova, Italy

^* Corresponding author: fisichella@lns.infn.it

Published online: 22 June 2023

Abstract

The thickness and uniformity characterisation of the first prototypes of thin tellurium and germanium targets evaporated on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite for NUMEN project is reported. The contribution of such targets to the energy resolution on reaction ejectiles is evaluated.

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