Measurement of neutron capture on Xe136

Albert, J. B.; Daugherty, S. J.; Johnson, T. N.; O'Conner, T.; Kaufman, L. J.; Couture, A.; Ullmann, J. L.; Krtička, M.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.94.034617

Measurement of neutron capture on ${}^{136}{Xe}$

Journal Article · Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.034617· OSTI ID:1481203

Albert, J. B. ^[1]; Daugherty, S. J. ^[2]; Johnson, T. N. ^[3]; O'Conner, T. ^[2]; Kaufman, L. J. ^[2]; Couture, A. ^[4]; Ullmann, J. L. ^[4]; Krtička, M. ^[5]

Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States); Indiana University
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Charles Univ. in Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)

¹³⁶Xe is a 0νββ decay candidate isotope, and is used in multiple experiments searching for this hypothetical decay mode. These experiments require precise information about neutron capture for their background characterization and minimization. Thermal and resonant neutron capture on ¹³⁶Xe have been measured at the Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments (DANCE) at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. A neutron beam ranging from thermal energy to greater than 100 keV was incident on a gas cell filled with isotopically pure ¹³⁶Xe. The relative neutron capture cross sections for neutrons at thermal energies and the first resonance at 2.154 keV have been measured. Furthermore, the γ cascades for these captures have been measured, and cascade models have been developed which may be used by 0νββ experiments using ¹³⁶Xe.

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Research Organization:: Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; AC52-07NA27344; SC0012191

OSTI ID:: 1481203

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1327431

Report Number(s):: DOE-IU--12191-2

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 94; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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