Recoil-ion detection efficiency for complex decays studied using the Beta-decay Paul Trap
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept of Physics
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics; Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada). Dept of Physics
Beta-delayed neutron emission is being studied by detecting the particles and recoiling ions emerging from the Beta-decay Paul Trap. For decays to the ground state or γ-emitting states of the daughter nucleus, the fraction of recoiling ions which reach the ion detector in coincidence with a particle has been determined for 134, 135Sb, 137, 138, 140I, and 144, 145Cs. This value is needed for the determination of the -delayed neutron emission branching ratio solely from the recoil-ion time-of-flight (TOF) spectrum. The β-particle energy and recoil-ion TOF spectra were used to constrain a simple decay model, which can be used to determine the detection efficiency. The method is compared to simulations to estimate the uncertainty introduced by incomplete knowledge of the decay pattern. By fitting the simulation results to several β-ion coincidence properties measured during the experiment, the fraction of ions which reach the microchannel plate detector can be determined to within ±4%. In conclusion, this result opens the possibility of using the recoil-ion TOF spectra for high precision β-delayed neutron branching-ratio measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; NEUP 13-5485; NA0000979; FG02-94ER40834; AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1466933
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1542494
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-747550; 931403
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 898, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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