A Flexible Real-Time Algorithm for the RedStorm#2 Software Package

A new real-time algorithm for the C++ RedStorm#2 software package to radically suppress the background at the total fusion reactions on the new DC-280 cyclotron (Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) is reviewed. This algorithm assumes some flexibility with the execution of the data set program in contrast to earlier algorithms applied at the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator. Namely, the experimenter sets the allowable value of the relative real-time loss of target irradiation, but not a fixed time interval between the implantation of a nuclide into a silicon detector and its α-decay. The block diagram of the algorithm execution is presented and possible branches of the algorithm are considered. The edge effects and their role in collecting a nonequilibrium charge from the p–n junction of the DSSSD detector (double-sided silicon strip detector) of the focal plane of recoil separator are also considered.