Installation and commissioning of EURICA - Euroball-RIKEN Cluster Array

Abstract

EURICA is a project at AIKEN Nishina Center aimed at studying a wide range of exotic nuclei through beta-decay measurements and high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy. The setup is located behind the BigRIPS fragment separator and the ZeroDegree spectrometer at the RIBF. EURICA consists of the HPGe cluster detectors from the previous Euroball and RISING projects, together with double-sided silicon-strip detectors for beta-decay counting and lifetime measurements. In total, this setup provides us with the possibility to study several aspects of the exotic nuclei produced at the RIBF.