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Title: β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N = 82 shell gap

Abstract

The β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich nuclei Sn 134 - 139 , Sb 134 - 142 , Te 137 - 144 , I 140 - 146 , Xe 142 - 148 , Cs 145 - 151 , Ba 148 - 153 , and La 151 - 155 were measured at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory employing the projectile fission fragments of U 238 . The nuclear level structure, which relates to deformation, has a large effect on the half-lives. The impact of newly measured half-lives on modeling the astrophysical origin of the heavy elements is studied in the context of r process nucleosynthesis. For a wide variety of astrophysical conditions, including those in which fission recycling occurs, the half-lives have an important local impact on the second ( A 130) peak.

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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan)
  2. RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan)
  3. P. Moller Scientific Computing and Graphics, Inc., Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  5. Univ. of Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France). Inst. pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC); Universite Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France). Center for Nuclear Sciences and Material Sciences (CSNSM), National Inst. for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  6. Hoseo Univ., Chung-Nam (Korea)
  7. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
  8. Univ. of Brighton (United Kingdom); RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan)
  9. Chung-Ang Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Physics
  10. RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan); National Physical Lab. (NPL), Teddington (United Kingdom); Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom)
  11. Korea Univ., Seoul (Korea)
  12. Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom); RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan)
  13. RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  14. Univ. of York (United Kingdom); RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama (Japan)
  15. Beihang Univ., Beijing (China). International Research Center for Nuclei and Particles in the Cosmos (IRCNPC)
  16. Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  17. Osaka Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Physics
  18. Univ. of Tokyo, Saitama (Japan). Center for Nuclear Study (CNS)
  19. Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
  20. Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France). DAM, DIF
  21. Univ. of Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France). National Inst. for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), PHC
  22. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany)
  23. Inst. for Basic Science, Daejeon (Korea). Rare Isotope Science Project
  24. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
  25. Osaka Univ. (Japan). Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacin; Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); UK Science and Technology Facilities Council; RIKEN; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
OSTI Identifier:
1617848
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1645092
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-20-22956
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN; 158157; TRN: US2106769
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC52-06NA25396; NRF-2009-0093817; NRF- 2015R1D1A1A01056918; NRF-2016R1A5A1013277; NRF-2013R1A1A2063017; K100835; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Wu, J., Nishimura, S., Möller, P., Mumpower, M. R., Lozeva, R., Moon, C. B., Odahara, A., Baba, H., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y. F., Haroon, M., Isobe, T., Jung, H. S., Lorusso, G., Moon, B., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P. -A., Sumikama, T., Watanabe, H., Xu, Z. Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Ahn, D. S., Bello Garrote, F. L., Daugas, J. M., Didierjean, F., Fukuda, N., Inabe, N., Ishigaki, T., Kameda, D., Kojouharov, I., Komatsubara, T., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, K. Y., Morimoto, S., Murai, D., Nishibata, H., Schaffner, H., Sprouse, T. M., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tanaka, M., Tshoo, K., and Wakabayashi, Y. β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N=82 shell gap. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.101.042801.
Wu, J., Nishimura, S., Möller, P., Mumpower, M. R., Lozeva, R., Moon, C. B., Odahara, A., Baba, H., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y. F., Haroon, M., Isobe, T., Jung, H. S., Lorusso, G., Moon, B., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P. -A., Sumikama, T., Watanabe, H., Xu, Z. Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Ahn, D. S., Bello Garrote, F. L., Daugas, J. M., Didierjean, F., Fukuda, N., Inabe, N., Ishigaki, T., Kameda, D., Kojouharov, I., Komatsubara, T., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, K. Y., Morimoto, S., Murai, D., Nishibata, H., Schaffner, H., Sprouse, T. M., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tanaka, M., Tshoo, K., & Wakabayashi, Y. β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N=82 shell gap. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.042801
Wu, J., Nishimura, S., Möller, P., Mumpower, M. R., Lozeva, R., Moon, C. B., Odahara, A., Baba, H., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y. F., Haroon, M., Isobe, T., Jung, H. S., Lorusso, G., Moon, B., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P. -A., Sumikama, T., Watanabe, H., Xu, Z. Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Ahn, D. S., Bello Garrote, F. L., Daugas, J. M., Didierjean, F., Fukuda, N., Inabe, N., Ishigaki, T., Kameda, D., Kojouharov, I., Komatsubara, T., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, K. Y., Morimoto, S., Murai, D., Nishibata, H., Schaffner, H., Sprouse, T. M., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tanaka, M., Tshoo, K., and Wakabayashi, Y. Thu . "β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N=82 shell gap". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.042801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1617848.
@article{osti_1617848,
title = {β -decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N=82 shell gap},
author = {Wu, J. and Nishimura, S. and Möller, P. and Mumpower, M. R. and Lozeva, R. and Moon, C. B. and Odahara, A. and Baba, H. and Browne, F. and Daido, R. and Doornenbal, P. and Fang, Y. F. and Haroon, M. and Isobe, T. and Jung, H. S. and Lorusso, G. and Moon, B. and Patel, Z. and Rice, S. and Sakurai, H. and Shimizu, Y. and Sinclair, L. and Söderström, P. -A. and Sumikama, T. and Watanabe, H. and Xu, Z. Y. and Yagi, A. and Yokoyama, R. and Ahn, D. S. and Bello Garrote, F. L. and Daugas, J. M. and Didierjean, F. and Fukuda, N. and Inabe, N. and Ishigaki, T. and Kameda, D. and Kojouharov, I. and Komatsubara, T. and Kubo, T. and Kurz, N. and Kwon, K. Y. and Morimoto, S. and Murai, D. and Nishibata, H. and Schaffner, H. and Sprouse, T. M. and Suzuki, H. and Takeda, H. and Tanaka, M. and Tshoo, K. and Wakabayashi, Y.},
abstractNote = {The β-decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich nuclei Sn134-139, Sb134-142, Te137-144, I140-146, Xe142-148, Cs145-151, Ba148-153, and La151-155 were measured at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory employing the projectile fission fragments of U238. The nuclear level structure, which relates to deformation, has a large effect on the half-lives. The impact of newly measured half-lives on modeling the astrophysical origin of the heavy elements is studied in the context of r process nucleosynthesis. For a wide variety of astrophysical conditions, including those in which fission recycling occurs, the half-lives have an important local impact on the second (A ≈ 130) peak.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.101.042801},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 4,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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