Angus Macnab, University of Washington / Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Authors: Angus Macnab, Felix Liang

Abstract: There is a growing interest in high precision seperation devices which can help study fusion reactions and probe for fusion enhancement at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier.  Instrumentation designed to measure the fusion cross sections of inverse kinematic reactions is being developed utilizing an Enge Split Pole Magnetic Spectrograph with a Scintillation Detector at the focal plane.  Data were collected for a known reaction, 70 Ge + 27 Al* in order to test and callibrate the spectrograph.  Additionally, there are future plans to increase precision by adding a Position Sensitive Avalanche Counter at the focal plane and altering the Scintillation Detector such that it can perform adequately in a gas filled environment.