Complete ? -decay pattern for the high-priority decay-heat isotopes I137 and Xe137 determined using total absorption spectroscopy

Rasco, Bertis C.; Rykaczewski, Krzysztof P.; Fijalkowska, A.; Karny, Marek; Wolinska-Cichocka, Marzena; Grzywacz, Robert Kazimierz; Gross, Carl J.; Stracener, Daniel W.; Zganjar, E. F.; Blackmon, J. C.; Brewer, Nathan T.; Goetz, K. C.; Johnson, J. W.; Jost, Carola U.; Hamilton, J. H.; Miernik, K.; Madurga, M.; Miller, D.; Padgett, S.; Paulauskas, S. V.; Ramayya, A. V.; Spejewski, Eugene Henry

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.054328

Title: Complete $?$ -decay pattern for the high-priority decay-heat isotopes ${}^{137}I$ and ${}^{137}{Xe}$ determined using total absorption spectroscopy

Journal Article · 30 May 2017 · Physical Review C

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.054328 · OSTI ID:1362245

Rasco, Bertis C. ^[1];

^[2]; Fijalkowska, A. ^[3]; Karny, Marek ^[4]; Wolinska-Cichocka, Marzena ^[4];

^[5]; Gross, Carl J. ^[2];

^[2]; Zganjar, E. F. ^[6]; Blackmon, J. C. ^[6]; Brewer, Nathan T. ^[5]; Goetz, K. C. ^[7]; Johnson, J. W. ^[2]; Jost, Carola U. ^[2]; Hamilton, J. H. ^[8]; Miernik, K. ^[9]; Madurga, M. ^[7]; Miller, D. ^[10]; Padgett, S. ^[7]; Paulauskas, S. V. ^[7] more »

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

We measured the complete -decay intensities of ¹³⁷I and ¹³⁷Xe with the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We describe a novel technique for measuring the -delayed neutron energy spectrum, which also provides a measurement of the -neutron branching ratio, P_n.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-96ER40978; FG02-96ER40983; FG02-96ER41006; FG05-88ER40407

OSTI ID:: 1362245

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 95; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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