Gemma Wilson
MPhys Thesis, University of Surrey (April 2008)
This work concentrates on the utilisation of two silicon detector arrays for use in transfer reactions in inverse kinematics. The ORRUBA array was used for a 132Sn(d,p)133Sn experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to investigate the single-particle structure of 133Sn. The response of the constituent detectors was tested extensively by means of measuring the dead layer. The TIARA array was used for a 26Ne(d,p)27Ne experiment at GANIL to investigate the migration of the N = 20 shell gap in neutron rich nuclei. This experiment was simulated using GEANT4. Some preliminary results from the GANIL experiment are compared to these simulations.
