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Last name: ESPINO NAVAS
First name: José Manuel
En esta tesis se presentan varias contribuciones al estudio de la estructura de núcleos en rotación: 1. Estudiamos dos métodos para hacer frente al problema del apilamiento. Este consiste en el solapamiento entre las señales generadas por dos rayos gamm
The proton-unbound argon and chlorine isotopes have been studied by measuring trajectories of their decay-in-flight products by using a tracking technique with micro-strip detectors. The proton (1p) and two-proton (2p) emission processes have been detected in the measured angular correlations "heavy-fragment"+p and "heavy-fragment"+p+p,...
The two-proton radioactivity of the previously unknown 19Mg ground-state is observed by tracking the decay products in-flight. The trajectories of the 2p-decay products, 17Ne+p+p, have been measured by using tracking micro-strip detectors which allowed to reconstruct the 2pdecay vertices and fragment correlations. The half-life of 19Mg deduced...
Prospects of experimental studies of argon and chlorine isotopes located far beyond the proton dripline are studied by using systematics and cluster models. The deviations from the widespread systematics observed in 28 , 29 Cl and 29 , 30 Ar have been theoretically substantiated, and analogous deviations have been predicted for the lighter...
Previously unknown isotopes 30Ar and 29Cl have been identified by measurement of the trajectories of their in-flight decay products 28S+p+p and 28S+p, respectively. The analysis of angular correlations of the fragments provided information on decay energies and the structure of the parent states. The ground states of 30Ar and 29Cl were found at...
We have observed the two-proton radioactivity of the previously unknown 19Mg ground state by tracking the decay products in-flight. For the first time, the trajectories of the 2p-decay products, 17Ne+p+p, have been measured by using tracking microstrip detectors which allowed us to reconstruct the 2p-decay vertices and fragment correlations....
The β decay of Ar31, produced by fragmentation of an Ar36 beam at 880 MeV/nucleon, was investigated. Identified ions of Ar31 were stopped in a gaseous time projection chamber with optical readout allowing us to record decay events with emission of protons. In addition to β-delayed emission of one and two protons we clearly observed the...
Several states of proton-unbound isotopes 30 Ar and 29 Cl were investigated by measuring their in-flight decay products, 28 S + proton + proton and 28 S + proton, respectively. A refined analysis of 28 S -proton angular correlations indicates that the ground state of 30 Ar is located at 2 . 45 + 0.05 − 0.10 MeV above the two-proton...
The nucleus 46V has been studied in the reaction 24Mg(28Si,apn) 46V at 115 MeV beam energy, using both Au and Pb backed targets. Lifetimes were obtained for 14 levels with DSAM analysis. Experimental B (E2) reduced transition probabilities are well reproduced by the large scale shell model. The observed levels could be organizied in bands with...
One of the major advantages of proton or ion beams, applied in cancer treatment, is their excellent depth-dose profile exhibiting a low dose in the entrance channel and a distinct dose maximum (Bragg peak) near the end of range in tissue. In the region of the Bragg peak, where the protons or ions are almost stopped, experimental studies with...
Proton-proton correlations were observed for the two-proton decays of the ground states of 19Mg and 16Ne. The trajectories of the respective decay products, 17Ne+p+p and 14O+p+p, were measured by using a tracking technique with microstrip detectors. These data were used to reconstruct the angular correlations of fragments projected on planes...
Previously unknown states in 18Na and 19Mg have been studied by measuring the trajectories of their decay products with microstrip detectors. Analyzing angular correlations of the fragments provided information on decay energies and widths of the parent states. The ground state of 18Na has been detected and its one-proton decay energy of...
A powerful method of investigating proton-unbound nuclear states by tracking their decay products in flight is discussed in detail. To verify the method, four known levels in 15F, 16Ne, and 19Na were investigated by measuring the angular correlations between protons and the respective heavy-ion fragments stemming from the precursor decays in...
Results of irradiation of thin Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond detectors with low energy: p,α and 7Li beams are presented. Energy resolution: ΔE/E<1% of a single crystal detector was achieved. A coincident measurement with two diamond detectors showed time resolution of 100 ps and efficiency above 70%. Despite a high beam flux reaching...
Two high-lying states in 15F and 16Ne, unbound with respect to one-proton (1p) and two-proton (2p) emissions, have been observed in the fragmentation of 17Ne at intermediate energies. They undergo mainly sequential emissions of protons via intermediate states in 14O and 15F and have decay energies of 7.8(2) and 7.6(2) MeV, respectively. The...
Theaimofthisworkistopresentanewdataacquisition,control,andanalysissoftwaresystemwrittenin LabVIEW.Thissystemhasbeendesignedtoobtainthedosimetryofasiliconstripdetectorinpolyethylene. It allows the full automation of the experiments and data analysis required for the dosimetric characterization of silicon detectors. It becomes a useful tool that...
Radiotherapy is nowadays a proven technique in cancer treatments. Within the evolution of radiotherapy treatments towards more complex techniques, the need of new dosimetric methods for treatment verifications has appeared. In order to reach an improved dosimetric method, a collaboration was started to transfer knowledge from nuclear reaction...
Experiments on halo nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier can provide good quality data on elastic, inelastic, breakup and nucleon transfer reactions. This information turns out to be very important to understand the structure and dynamics of these exotic nuclei. In this work we present relevant results obtained from recent scattering...
Sistema de verificación de tratamientos de radioterapia comprende, al menos, un maniquí cilíndrico (100) y que comprende, a su vez, unos medios motorizados (101) para girar sobre su propio eje (102), estando dichos medios gobernados por los medios de adquisición de datos del sistema (300) y donde, además, en el maniquí (100) se sitúa...
In this work we present the output factor measurements of a clinical linear accelerator using a silicon strip detector coupled to a new system for complex radiation therapy treatment verification. The objective of these measurements is to validate the system we built for treatment verification. The measurements were performed at the Virgin...
A feasibility study of an experimental setup for the irradiation of biological samples at the cyclotron facility installed at the National Centre of Accelerators (Seville, Spain) is presented. This cyclotron, which counts on an external beam line for interdisciplinary research purposes, produces an 18 MeV proton beam, which is suitable for the...
We have measured elastic cross sections of the scattering of 6He at ELab = 14, 16, 17, 18, 22 MeV on 208Pb in the angular ranges of 20± − 64± and 135± − 170±. A significant amount of 4He events is found at energies well below the Coulomb barrier, that becomes dominant above it. Optical Model calculations have been performed including a dynamic...