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01.07.2006, 23:42
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Hyperball (Hypernuclear Germanium Ball)
Hyperball is a large-scale germanium (Ge) detector array dedicated to gamma spectroscopy of hypernuclei. It consists of fourteen N-type coaxial Ge detectors of 60% relative efficiency (crystal size of about 70 mm phi x 70 mm). The distance between the detector end cap and the beam axis is about 15 cm, and it has a photo-peak efficiency of about 2.5% at 1 MeV. Hyperball is equipped with special fast electronics which works under the condition of extremely high counting rate and energy rate (close to 1 TeV/sec). The signal from each Ge detector is processed with a transistor-reset preamplifier and a gated-integrator amplifier. Each Ge detector is surrounded by six BGO counters which provide veto signals to suppress backgrounds from Compton scattering, high-energy gamma rays from pi0 decays, and high-energy charged particles.
Hyperball was constructed by the Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research on the Priority Area "Strangeness Nuclear Physics" (Spokesperson: K.Imai, Kyoto Univ.) from The Ministry of Education of Japan, No.08239102.
In 2005, Hyperball has been upgraded to "Hyperball2" by adding six Clover-type Ge detectors in collabbration with the CYRIC (Cychrotron Radio-Isotope Center in Tohoku Unive.) group. The photo-eapk efficiency has been doubled to 5% at 1 MeV.
Hyperball (Hypernuclear Germanium Ball)
Hyperball is a large-scale germanium (Ge) detector array dedicated to gamma spectroscopy of hypernuclei. It consists of fourteen N-type coaxial Ge detectors of 60% relative efficiency (crystal size of about 70 mm phi x 70 mm). The distance between the detector end cap and the beam axis is about 15 cm, and it has a photo-peak efficiency of about 2.5% at 1 MeV. Hyperball is equipped with special fast electronics which works under the condition of extremely high counting rate and energy rate (close to 1 TeV/sec). The signal from each Ge detector is processed with a transistor-reset preamplifier and a gated-integrator amplifier. Each Ge detector is surrounded by six BGO counters which provide veto signals to suppress backgrounds from Compton scattering, high-energy gamma rays from pi0 decays, and high-energy charged particles.
Hyperball was constructed by the Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research on the Priority Area "Strangeness Nuclear Physics" (Spokesperson: K.Imai, Kyoto Univ.) from The Ministry of Education of Japan, No.08239102.
In 2005, Hyperball has been upgraded to "Hyperball2" by adding six Clover-type Ge detectors in collabbration with the CYRIC (Cychrotron Radio-Isotope Center in Tohoku Unive.) group. The photo-eapk efficiency has been doubled to 5% at 1 MeV.