The new Heavy-ion MCP based ancillary detector DANTE for the PRISMA-CLARA Setup

The CLARA‐PRISMA setup is a powerful tool for spectroscopic studies of neutron‐rich nuclei produced in multi‐nucleon transfer and deep‐inelastic reactions. It combines the large acceptance spectrometer PRISMA with the γ‐ray array CLARA. At present, the ancillary heavy‐ion detector DANTE, based on Micro‐Channel Plates to be installed at the CLARA‐PRISMA setup, is being constructed at LNL. DANTE will open the possibility of measuring γ‐γ Doppler‐corrected coincidences for the events outside the acceptance of PRISMA. In this presentation, it is described the heavy‐ion detector DANTE, as well as the performances of the first prototype. © 2006 American Institute of Physics