At the NZ24 Department, we have experience in the construction and operation of detectors used in nuclear physics research. Many of them were designed and made by the employees of the Depatment. They are used both in large, international projects and in smaller experiments launched at the Cyclotron Center Bronowice.
BINA
BINA (Big Instrument for Nuclear Polarization Analysis) is detection system designed to study interactions in several-nucleon systems, in the area of ntermediate energies. So far, it has operated in the KVI Groningen laboratory (Netherlands). It is mainly used to detect charged reaction products from deuteron fission and elastic scattering processes. After the completion of the hadron physics research program at KVI, the detector was launched at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, in the newly established CCB hadron therapy center (Cyclotron Center Bronowice), with the Proteus C-235 cyclotron, which can accelerate protons to energies in the range of 70-230 MeV and can also be used for basic research in nuclear physics of intermediate energies.
KATANA
KATANA (Kraków Array for Triggering with Amplitude DiscrimiNAtion) is a triggering and VETO detector, built for the experimental setup of the S\(\pi\)RIT TPC experiment at RIKEN (grants No NCN UMO-2013/09/B/ST2/04064 and UMO-2013/10/M/ST2/00624). It consists of several, vertical scintillation plastics with dimensions of 10×40 cm 2 each, from which the light is collected by photodiodes. The three central detectors are 1 mm thick and constitute the VETO detector. The remaining ones, 1 cm thick, provide a multiplicity trigger signal.
KRAB
KRAB ( KRAków Barrel) is a reaction plane detector and multiplicity trigger designed for the ASY-EOS II experiment (grant No NCN UMO-2017/25/B/ST2/02550). It consists of 700 miniature scintillation detectors arranged cylindrically in 5 rings. Four rings are located behind the target, and one in front of the target, which is mounted on a rotating carousel inside the detector. The light readout is made using photodiodes, supported by CitiROC systems. The detector gives precise information about the position of the particles coming from the decay, which is intended to allow precise determination of the reaction plane. At the same time, it creates a triggering signal depending on the multiplicity of registered particles. The KRAB detection system will enable the continuation of basic research on one of the most intriguing topics of modern nuclear physics, i.e. studies of asymmetric properties of nuclear matter at high densities, its equations of state, and especially the so-called symmetry energy.
KRATTA
Grant No MNiSW/NCN DPN/N108/GSI/2009
KRATTA (KRAków Triple Telescope Array) is a modular, low threshold, broad energy range system built to measure the energy, emission angle, and isotopic composition of light charged reaction products. It consists of 38 independent modules which can be arranged in an arbitrary configuration. A single module, covering actively about 4.5 msr of the solid angle at the optimal distance of 40 cm from the target, consists of three identical, thick, large area photodiodes, used also for direct detection, and of two CsI(1500 ppm Tl) crystals of 2.5 and 12.5 cm length, respectively.