EPJ Web of Conferences (Dec 2013)

Recent developments for an active UF6 gas target for photon-induced fission experiments

  • Freudenberger M.,
  • Eckardt C.,
  • Enders J.,
  • Göök A.,
  • von Neumann-Cosel P.,
  • Oberstedt A.,
  • Oberstedt S.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136205001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62
p. 05001

Abstract

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Recent developments for an active uranium-hexafluoride-loaded gas target as well as results on the detector gas properties are presented. The gas of choice is a mixture of argon with small amounts of UF6. This contribution presents the experimental setup and focusses on the electron drift velocity with increasing UF6 content. A time-dependent decrease in electron drift velocity is observed in our setup.