202 FRIB Graduate Brochure
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Andreas Stolz<br />
Professor, Operations Department Head<br />
Keywords: Rare Isotope Production with Fragment Separators, Structure of<br />
Nuclei at the Limits of Existence, Particle Detector Development<br />
s<br />
Experimental Nuclear Physics<br />
About<br />
• MS, Physics, Technological University of Munich 1995<br />
• PhD, Physics, Technological University of Munich,<br />
2001<br />
• Joined the laboratory in June 2001<br />
• stolz@frib.msu.edu<br />
Research<br />
My primary research interest is centered on the production<br />
of rare isotope beams with fragment separators and the<br />
study of the structure of nuclei at the limits of existence.<br />
At <strong>FRIB</strong>, rare-isotope beams are produced by projectile<br />
fragmentation. The coupled cyclotrons accelerate stable<br />
ions to a velocity up to half the speed of light. The fast ions<br />
then impinge on a production target where they break up<br />
into fragments of different mass and charges. Most of the<br />
fragments are unstable, and many of them have an unusual<br />
ratio of protons and neutrons. To study their properties,<br />
the fragments of interest need to be separated from all<br />
other produced particles. The A1900 fragment separator<br />
at <strong>FRIB</strong> filters rare isotopes by their magnetic properties<br />
and their energy loss in thin metal foils. Detector systems<br />
installed in the path of the beam allow the unambiguous<br />
identification of every single isotope transmitted through<br />
the device. The large acceptance of the separator<br />
together with intense primary beams from the cyclotrons<br />
allow access to the most exotic nuclei that exist, some<br />
of which were observed for the first time at <strong>FRIB</strong>. The<br />
investigation of the limits of nuclear stability provides a<br />
key benchmark for nuclear models and is fundamental to<br />
the understanding of the nuclear forces and structure.<br />
Another research area is the development of particle<br />
detectors made from diamond produced by chemical<br />
vapor. Radioactive beam facilities of the newest generation<br />
can produce rare isotope beams with very high intensities.<br />
The special properties of diamond allow the development<br />
of radiation-hard timing and tracking detectors that can<br />
be used at incident particle rates up to 108 particles per<br />
second. Detectors based on poly-crystalline diamond were<br />
built and tested at <strong>FRIB</strong> and excellent timing properties<br />
were achieved. Those detectors have been successfully<br />
used as timing detectors in several <strong>FRIB</strong> experiments.<br />
First, detectors based on single-crystal diamond showed<br />
superior efficiency and energy resolution. Further<br />
development will continue with the investigation of<br />
properties of single-crystal diamond detectors and the<br />
production of position-sensitive detectors with larger<br />
active areas.<br />
Selected Publications<br />
Degradation of single crystal diamond detectors in swift<br />
heavy ion beams, A. Bhattacharya et al., Diamond and<br />
Related Materials 70, 124 (2016)<br />
Evidence for a Change in the Nuclear Mass Surface with<br />
the Discovery of the Most Neutron-Rich Nuclei with 17 ≤ Z<br />
≤ 25, O.B. Tarasov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142501 (2009)<br />
First observation of two-proton radioactivity in 48 Ni, M.<br />
Pomorski et al., Phys. Rev. C 83, 061303 (2011).<br />
Particle identification plot showing the energy loss in a<br />
silicon detector as a function of time-of-flight through<br />
the A1900 fragment separator. The separator tune was<br />
optimized for 60 Ge, a rare isotope observed for the first<br />
time at <strong>FRIB</strong>.<br />
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