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

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

Abstract

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.

Authors:

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

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)

Publication Date:: Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016

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

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1481203

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1327431

Report Number(s):: DOE-IU-12191-2
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN

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

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review C

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 94; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; neutron backgrounds; neutrino; double-beta decay; xenon

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                    Albert, J. B., Daugherty, S. J., Johnson, T. N., O'Conner, T., Kaufman, L. J., Couture, A., Ullmann, J. L., and Krtička, M. Measurement of neutron capture on Xe136.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Albert, J. B., Daugherty, S. J., Johnson, T. N., O'Conner, T., Kaufman, L. J., Couture, A., Ullmann, J. L., & Krtička, M. Measurement of neutron capture on Xe136.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.034617

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                    Albert, J. B., Daugherty, S. J., Johnson, T. N., O'Conner, T., Kaufman, L. J., Couture, A., Ullmann, J. L., and Krtička, M. Thu .  
"Measurement of neutron capture on Xe136".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.034617.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1481203.

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@article{osti_1481203,

  title        = {Measurement of neutron capture on Xe136},

  author       = {Albert, J. B. and Daugherty, S. J. and Johnson, T. N. and O'Conner, T. and Kaufman, L. J. and Couture, A. and Ullmann, J. L. and Krtička, M.},

  abstractNote = {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.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevC.94.034617},

  journal      = {Physical Review C},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 94,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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