Initial Test of the Ten-Inch Manipulator-Based Short Lived Isotope Counting System

Abstract

The Short-Lived Isotope Counting System ( is designed to measure cross sections for astrophysically relevant light ion reactions and energies The dE-E phoswich detector telescope, which identifies beta particles from decaying 20 ms to 20 s half-life reaction product nuclei, has been redesigned to fit in a Ten Inch Manipulator ( for insertion in the OMEGA-60 and OMEGA-EP target chambers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics In the first test of the new design, 8 Li decays were detected after the 7 Li(d,p) 8 Li reaction was triggered by a pulse of OMEGA-EP target normal sheath acceleration ( deuterons This poster presents a description of the new design and preliminary test results This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy [National Nuclear Security Administration] University of Rochester “National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program” under Award Number(s) DE NA 0004144