From INFN-LNS to GANIL: a journey throughout the early FAZIA years

by Dr Alberto Camaiani (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Firenze and INFN, Sez. Firenze, Italy.)

Monday 18 Nov 2024, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Warsaw

NO2 Lecture room (IFJ PAN)

In this seminar, a journey through the years will take place, reporting on the first years of experimental activity of the FAZIA array. After a long R&D phase, the FAZIA detector in its final form was born and it started an experimental campaign from 2015 to 2018 at INFN-lNS. Here, heavy ion collisions in the Fermi regime (25-75 MeV/u) have been explored, well selecting the reaction channels and exploring them using isospin-sensitive observables, thanks to the isotopic identification of the FAZIA array. Heavy fragments and light particles were isotopically identified and precisely measured in energy, allowing detailed and extensive tests of the transport model, to improve the knowledge on isospin dynamics.

Since 2019, 12 blocks of FAZIA have been installed in GANIL and coupled with INDRA. Two experimental campaigns have been already conducted and two are foreseen for 2025. The INDRA geometrical acceptance coupled with the identification capabilities of FAZIA allowed for to extension and conclusion of the analyses started during the INFN-LNS years. The main results will be here reviewed.