Design, instrumentation, and the light response of the Heavy-Ion detector array inside the Big-Bite Spectrometer

A phoswich array consisting of 60 elements has been built and used in pionic-fusion experiments at the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI). The array is used in conjunction with a magnetic spectrometer and a time-of-flight system to measure the fragments produced in (3)He + (4)He and (4)He + (6)Li reactions at beam energies of 85.3 and 59.1 A MeV, respectively. The particle identification for Z