A new experimental device, the Silicon Cube detector, consisting of six double-sided silicon strip detectors placed in a compact geometry was developed at CENBG. Having a very good angular coverage and high granularity, it allows simultaneous measurements of energy and angular distributions of charged particles emitted from unbound nuclear states. In addition, large-volume Germanium detectors can be placed close to the collection point of the radioactive species to be studied. The setup is ideally suited for isotope separation on-line (ISOL)-type experiments to study multi-particle emitters and was tested during an experiment at the low-energy beam line of SPIRAL at GANIL.

This work was supported by the Conseil régional d’Aquitaine,the French ANR via the Contract ANR-06-BLAN-0320,and by the European Union 6th Framework Programme‘‘Integrated Infrastructure Initiative—Transnational Access’’,Contract no.506065(EURONS).

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