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:
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- Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States). Inst. of Nuclear and Particle Physics; Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Nuclear Science Division
- National Heavy Ion Accelerator (GANIL), Caen (France)
- Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States); Goethe Univ., Frankfurt (Germany). Inst. for Applied Physics
- 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
- 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.
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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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