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Title: β-particle energy-summing correction for β-delayed proton emission measurements

Abstract

One common approach to studying β-delayed proton emission is to measure the energy of the emitted proton and corresponding nuclear recoil in a double-sided silicon-strip detector (DSSD) after implanting the β-delayed proton-emitting (βp) nucleus. However, in order to extract the proton-decay energy, the measured energy must be corrected for the additional energy implanted in the DSSD by the β-particle emitted from the βp nucleus, an effect referred to here as β-summing. Here, we present an approach to determine an accurate correction for β-summing. Our method relies on the determination of the mean implantation depth of the βp nucleus within the DSSD by analyzing the shape of the total (proton + recoil + β) decay energy distribution shape. We validate this approach with other mean implantation depth measurement techniques that take advantage of energy deposition within DSSDs upstream and downstream of the implantation DSSD.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [5];  [2];  [6];  [7]
  1. Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States). Inst. of Nuclear and Particle Physics; Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Nuclear Science Division
  4. National Heavy Ion Accelerator (GANIL), Caen (France)
  5. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Goethe Univ., Frankfurt (Germany). Inst. for Applied Physics
  6. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  7. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1379712
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; PHY-0822648; PHY-1430152
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 844; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; β-delayed proton emission; GEANT4; DSSD

Citation Formats

Meisel, Z., del Santo, M., Crawford, H. L., Cyburt, R. H., Grinyer, G. F., Langer, C., Montes, F., Schatz, H., and Smith, K. β-particle energy-summing correction for β-delayed proton emission measurements. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.11.019.
Meisel, Z., del Santo, M., Crawford, H. L., Cyburt, R. H., Grinyer, G. F., Langer, C., Montes, F., Schatz, H., & Smith, K. β-particle energy-summing correction for β-delayed proton emission measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.11.019
Meisel, Z., del Santo, M., Crawford, H. L., Cyburt, R. H., Grinyer, G. F., Langer, C., Montes, F., Schatz, H., and Smith, K. Mon . "β-particle energy-summing correction for β-delayed proton emission measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.11.019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1379712.
@article{osti_1379712,
title = {β-particle energy-summing correction for β-delayed proton emission measurements},
author = {Meisel, Z. and del Santo, M. and Crawford, H. L. and Cyburt, R. H. and Grinyer, G. F. and Langer, C. and Montes, F. and Schatz, H. and Smith, K.},
abstractNote = {One common approach to studying β-delayed proton emission is to measure the energy of the emitted proton and corresponding nuclear recoil in a double-sided silicon-strip detector (DSSD) after implanting the β-delayed proton-emitting (βp) nucleus. However, in order to extract the proton-decay energy, the measured energy must be corrected for the additional energy implanted in the DSSD by the β-particle emitted from the βp nucleus, an effect referred to here as β-summing. Here, we present an approach to determine an accurate correction for β-summing. Our method relies on the determination of the mean implantation depth of the βp nucleus within the DSSD by analyzing the shape of the total (proton + recoil + β) decay energy distribution shape. We validate this approach with other mean implantation depth measurement techniques that take advantage of energy deposition within DSSDs upstream and downstream of the implantation DSSD.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2016.11.019},
journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
number = C,
volume = 844,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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