Hello, dear friends in researchgate. Just as the title says, could a reasonable angular distribution of elastic scattering be obtained in a radioactive ion beam experiment without target-out running? (Low energy nuclear physics)
In this kind of experiments since the radioactive beam is a secondary beam it comes with all sort of directions and position. You need post-tracking detectors that give you the incident angle of the beam on the target as well as the impact position.
You might need to run without target as a double check that your beam is not hitting any surrounding detectors or target frame. Usually the experimental target for this type of experiment is very thick for statistic reason.