Abstract
AbstractTo address several outstanding problems in nuclear astrophysics, an accelerator centre has been developed in India. The Facility for Research in Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (FRENA) will serve as a laboratory dedicated to nuclear astrophysics measurements. The 3 MV high current, low energy two-stage accelerator housed at FRENA is capable of delivering different types of beams—protons, alphas, carbon, silicon, among others. The accelerator can provide direct, as well as, pulsed beams of protons and alphas. A set of dedicated high efficiency detector arrays composed of solid state detectors, scintillation detectors and other particle detectors will be used at different end-stations to perform different experiments in the coming years.
Funder
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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