Prompt-delayed $\gamma$ -ray spectroscopy with AGATA, EXOGAM and VAMOS++

International audienceA new experimental setup to measure prompt-delayed $\gamma$ -ray coincidences from isotopically identified fission fragments, over a wide time range of 100ns-200μ s, is presented. The fission fragments were isotopically identified, on an event-by-event basis, using the VAMOS++ large acceptance spectrometer. The prompt $\gamma$ rays emitted at the target position and corresponding delayed $ \gamma$ rays emitted at the focal plane of the spectrometer were detected using, respectively, thirty two crystals of the AGATA $\gamma$ -ray tracking array and seven EXOGAM HPGe Clover detectors. Fission fragments produced in fusion and transfer-induced fission reactions, using a$^{238}$U beam at an energy of 6.2 MeV/u impinging on a$^{9}$Be target, were used to characterize and qualify the performance of the detection system