Sorting Simulations - Preparing fission experiments through simulations

Sammanfattning

This master thesis focuses on development and tests of the analysis software to includenewly added detectors before the start of a novel fission experiment to studyAc 230 scheduled for July 2025 at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. By convertingsimulated data to mimic the actual experimental data format it is possible to testthe analysis software in advance. Comparing data output from the software withthe same data before the conversion allows to spot bugs in the software. Thus thesoftware can be prepared and tested before the experiment, as it removes the needto use measured data for development.The experiment will study fission of Ac 230 after (d,p) reactions of Ac 229 at8MeV/u. While the Si array for detecting emitted protons has been used inmany experiments, handling of three new detectors must be prepared. Two SiCD detectors for fission fragments, four position sensitive Si strip detectors forluminosity monitoring as well as 36 CeBr3 crystals for γ rays.The work in this thesis allow the analysis software to be used as a diagnostictool for these new detectors already during the setup phase prior to the experiment.