View of the SN-100-Experiment at the GSI (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

View of the SN-100-Experiment at the GSI

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This is a view of the experiment at the GSI from a perspective against the beam direction. The fragments are stopped at the center of a "hedgehog" of 105 liquid nitrogen-cooled gamma ray detectors, where the precise time point of the beta decay and the released decay energy are measured.

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Thomas Faestermann / TUM

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