Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 359-361 (2007)
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00346-9

The heavy-ion magnetic spectrometer PRISMA

P. Mason¹, N. Marginean², G. Montagnoli¹, S. Beghini¹, F. Scarlassara¹, E. Farnea¹, C.A. Ur¹, A. Meroni¹, A.M. Stefanini², L. Corradi², E. Fioretto², I.V. Pokrovskiy², B. Guiot², A. Gadea², J.J. Valiente-Dobón², F. Della Vedova², R. Orlandi², E. Sahin², D.R. Napoli², L. Berti², N. Toniolo², S. Szilner³, M. Trotta⁴, M. Romoli⁴, M. La Commara⁴, D. Pierroutsakou⁴, M. Sandoli⁴, G. Pollarolo⁵ and G. Benzoni<sup>6

1</sup>  INFN and University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
²  INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
³  Ruder Boskovic Institute, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
⁴  INFN and University of Napoli, 80126 Napoli, Italy
⁵  INFN and University of Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
⁶  INFN and University of Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

(Received: January 31, 2007 / Published online: 8 December 2007)

Abstract
PRISMA is a magnetic spectrometer installed at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Italy) and designed for -200, -10 MeV-per-nucleon beams, and for possible use with the proposed radioactive beam facility SPES. The foremost features of the instrument are presented, along with the outline of two data analyses exemplifying the effectiveness of PRISMA-CLARA in studies of reaction dynamics.

PACS
29.30.Aj - Charged-particle spectrometers: electric and magnetic .
25.70.Bc - Elastic and quasielastic scattering .
23.20.Lv - Gamma transitions and level energies.

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