Speaker
Description
Work has been conducted at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, to combine the capabilities of the TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape Suppressed Spectrometer (TIGRESS) for gamma-rays, the CsI Ball array in the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger (TIP) for charged particles, and the ElectroMagnetic Mass Analyzer (EMMA) for recoil-mass spectrometry. This trio allows for an entirely new suite of measurements using fusion-evaporation, radiative-capture, and transfer reactions. This presentation will discuss the selectivity achieved by coupling TIGRESS and EMMA alongside a suite of auxiliary detectors housed within TIGRESS such as TIP. This combination of apparatus opens up a range of new studies into nuclear structure and astrophysics by enabling high-energy-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy and reaction measurements of weak fusion-evaporation channels in the presence of dominant background reactions. The combined capabilities of TIGRESS, EMMA, and TIP in the context of a fusion-evaporation study of the region near doubly magic 56Ni without the requirement of neutron spectroscopy will be the core topic discussed.