The Munich RF-recoil spectrometer for the observation of heavy-ion reaction products at zero degree

The design and performance of a new type of heavy-ion recoil spectrometer is described. The instrument allows the separation and identification ond reaction products at 0° and consists of a high transmission crossed field radio-frequency velocity filter, a time of flight detector and a large window ionization chamber. The device can be applied in investigations of heavy nuclei recoiling from targets fusion, transfer or fission processes. Coincidence experiments of the recoils with evaporated light particles, back-scattered projectile-like heavy ions or prompt gamma rays are possible.