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Title: β -delayed neutron emissions from N > 50 gallium isotopes

Abstract

β-delayed γ-neutron spectroscopy has been performed on the decay of A = 84 to 87 gallium isotopes at the RI-beam Factory at the RIKEN Nishina Center using a high-efficiency array of 3He neutron counters (BRIKEN). β-2n-γ events were measured in the decays of all of the four isotopes for the first time, which is direct evidence for populating the excited states of two-neutron daughter nuclei. Detailed decay schemes with the γ branching ratios were obtained for these isotopes, and the neutron emission probabilities (Pxn) were updated from the previous study. Hauser-Feshbach statistical model calculations were performed to understand the experimental branching ratios. We found that the P1n and P2n values are sensitive to the nuclear level densities of 1n daughter nuclei and showed that the statistical model reproduced the P2n/P1n ratio better when experimental levels plus shell-model level densities fit by the Gilbert-Cameron formula were used as the level-density input. We also showed the neutron and γ branching ratios are sensitive to the ground-state spin of the parent nucleus. Our statistical model analysis suggested J ≤ 3 for the unknown ground-state spin of the odd-odd nucleus 86Ga, from the Iγ(4+ → 2+)/Iγ(2+ → 0+) ratio of 84Ga and the P2n/P1nmore » ratio. In conclusion, these results show the necessity of detailed understanding of the decay scheme, including data from neutron spectroscopy, in addition to γ measurements of the multineutron emitters.« less

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  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Univ. of Tokyo, Saitama (Japan)
  2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  5. Spanish National Research Council and Univ. of Valencia (Spain). Inst. de Fisica Corpuscular
  6. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
  7. Spanish National Research Council and Univ. of Valencia (Spain). Inst. de Fisica Corpuscular; MTA Atomki, Debrecen (Hungary)
  8. Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
  9. Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
  10. Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Spain)
  11. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Daresbury (United Kingdom). Daresbury Laboratory
  12. Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States)
  13. Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako (Japan)
  14. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
  15. Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
  16. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  17. Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
  18. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  19. Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi (Vietnam)
  20. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); MTA Atomki, Debrecen (Hungary)
  21. McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
  22. Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam (Hong Kong); RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
  23. National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington (United Kingdom); Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom); RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
  24. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  25. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  26. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); Vietnam National Univ., Hanoi (Vietnam)
  27. Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot (United Kingdom). STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  28. Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
  29. Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam (Hong Kong)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
OSTI Identifier:
2301642
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; FG02-96ER40983; SC0016988; 89233218CNA000001; PHY-1430152; PHY-1565546; PHY-1714153; SAPIN-2014-00028; RG-PAS 462257-2014; ST/N00244X/1; ST//P004598/1; ST/V001027/1; NN128072
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 108; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Yokoyama, R., Grzywacz, R., Rasco, B. C., Brewer, N., Rykaczewski, K. P., Dillmann, I., Tain, J. L., Nishimura, S., Ahn, D. S., Algora, A., Allmond, J. M., Agramunt, J., Baba, H., Bae, S., Bruno, C. G., Caballero-Folch, R., Calvino, F., Coleman-Smith, P. J., Cortes, G., Davinson, T., Domingo-Pardo, C., Estrade, A., Fukuda, N., Go, S., Griffin, C. J., Ha, J., Hall, O., Harkness-Brennan, L. J., Heideman, J., Isobe, T., Kahl, D., Karny, M., Kawano, T., Khiem, L. H., King, T. T., Kiss, G. G., Korgul, A., Kubono, S., Labiche, M., Lazarus, I., Liang, J., Liu, J., Lorusso, G., Madurga, M., Matsui, K., Miernik, K., Montes, F., Morales, A. I., Morrall, P., Nepal, N., Page, R. D., Phong, V. H., Piersa-Siłkowska, M., Prydderch, M., Pucknell, V. F. E., Rajabali, M. M., Rubio, B., Saito, Y., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Simpson, J., Singh, M., Stracener, D. W., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Thomas, S. L., Tolosa-Delgado, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Woods, P. J., and Xu, X. X. β -delayed neutron emissions from N>50 gallium isotopes. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.108.064307.
Yokoyama, R., Grzywacz, R., Rasco, B. C., Brewer, N., Rykaczewski, K. P., Dillmann, I., Tain, J. L., Nishimura, S., Ahn, D. S., Algora, A., Allmond, J. M., Agramunt, J., Baba, H., Bae, S., Bruno, C. G., Caballero-Folch, R., Calvino, F., Coleman-Smith, P. J., Cortes, G., Davinson, T., Domingo-Pardo, C., Estrade, A., Fukuda, N., Go, S., Griffin, C. J., Ha, J., Hall, O., Harkness-Brennan, L. J., Heideman, J., Isobe, T., Kahl, D., Karny, M., Kawano, T., Khiem, L. H., King, T. T., Kiss, G. G., Korgul, A., Kubono, S., Labiche, M., Lazarus, I., Liang, J., Liu, J., Lorusso, G., Madurga, M., Matsui, K., Miernik, K., Montes, F., Morales, A. I., Morrall, P., Nepal, N., Page, R. D., Phong, V. H., Piersa-Siłkowska, M., Prydderch, M., Pucknell, V. F. E., Rajabali, M. M., Rubio, B., Saito, Y., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Simpson, J., Singh, M., Stracener, D. W., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Thomas, S. L., Tolosa-Delgado, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Woods, P. J., & Xu, X. X. β -delayed neutron emissions from N>50 gallium isotopes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.108.064307
Yokoyama, R., Grzywacz, R., Rasco, B. C., Brewer, N., Rykaczewski, K. P., Dillmann, I., Tain, J. L., Nishimura, S., Ahn, D. S., Algora, A., Allmond, J. M., Agramunt, J., Baba, H., Bae, S., Bruno, C. G., Caballero-Folch, R., Calvino, F., Coleman-Smith, P. J., Cortes, G., Davinson, T., Domingo-Pardo, C., Estrade, A., Fukuda, N., Go, S., Griffin, C. J., Ha, J., Hall, O., Harkness-Brennan, L. J., Heideman, J., Isobe, T., Kahl, D., Karny, M., Kawano, T., Khiem, L. H., King, T. T., Kiss, G. G., Korgul, A., Kubono, S., Labiche, M., Lazarus, I., Liang, J., Liu, J., Lorusso, G., Madurga, M., Matsui, K., Miernik, K., Montes, F., Morales, A. I., Morrall, P., Nepal, N., Page, R. D., Phong, V. H., Piersa-Siłkowska, M., Prydderch, M., Pucknell, V. F. E., Rajabali, M. M., Rubio, B., Saito, Y., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Simpson, J., Singh, M., Stracener, D. W., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Thomas, S. L., Tolosa-Delgado, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Woods, P. J., and Xu, X. X. Fri . "β -delayed neutron emissions from N>50 gallium isotopes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.108.064307.
@article{osti_2301642,
title = {β -delayed neutron emissions from N>50 gallium isotopes},
author = {Yokoyama, R. and Grzywacz, R. and Rasco, B. C. and Brewer, N. and Rykaczewski, K. P. and Dillmann, I. and Tain, J. L. and Nishimura, S. and Ahn, D. S. and Algora, A. and Allmond, J. M. and Agramunt, J. and Baba, H. and Bae, S. and Bruno, C. G. and Caballero-Folch, R. and Calvino, F. and Coleman-Smith, P. J. and Cortes, G. and Davinson, T. and Domingo-Pardo, C. and Estrade, A. and Fukuda, N. and Go, S. and Griffin, C. J. and Ha, J. and Hall, O. and Harkness-Brennan, L. J. and Heideman, J. and Isobe, T. and Kahl, D. and Karny, M. and Kawano, T. and Khiem, L. H. and King, T. T. and Kiss, G. G. and Korgul, A. and Kubono, S. and Labiche, M. and Lazarus, I. and Liang, J. and Liu, J. and Lorusso, G. and Madurga, M. and Matsui, K. and Miernik, K. and Montes, F. and Morales, A. I. and Morrall, P. and Nepal, N. and Page, R. D. and Phong, V. H. and Piersa-Siłkowska, M. and Prydderch, M. and Pucknell, V. F. E. and Rajabali, M. M. and Rubio, B. and Saito, Y. and Sakurai, H. and Shimizu, Y. and Simpson, J. and Singh, M. and Stracener, D. W. and Sumikama, T. and Suzuki, H. and Takeda, H. and Tarifeño-Saldivia, A. and Thomas, S. L. and Tolosa-Delgado, A. and Wolińska-Cichocka, M. and Woods, P. J. and Xu, X. X.},
abstractNote = {β-delayed γ-neutron spectroscopy has been performed on the decay of A = 84 to 87 gallium isotopes at the RI-beam Factory at the RIKEN Nishina Center using a high-efficiency array of 3He neutron counters (BRIKEN). β-2n-γ events were measured in the decays of all of the four isotopes for the first time, which is direct evidence for populating the excited states of two-neutron daughter nuclei. Detailed decay schemes with the γ branching ratios were obtained for these isotopes, and the neutron emission probabilities (Pxn) were updated from the previous study. Hauser-Feshbach statistical model calculations were performed to understand the experimental branching ratios. We found that the P1n and P2n values are sensitive to the nuclear level densities of 1n daughter nuclei and showed that the statistical model reproduced the P2n/P1n ratio better when experimental levels plus shell-model level densities fit by the Gilbert-Cameron formula were used as the level-density input. We also showed the neutron and γ branching ratios are sensitive to the ground-state spin of the parent nucleus. Our statistical model analysis suggested J ≤ 3 for the unknown ground-state spin of the odd-odd nucleus 86Ga, from the Iγ(4+ → 2+)/Iγ(2+ → 0+) ratio of 84Ga and the P2n/P1n ratio. In conclusion, these results show the necessity of detailed understanding of the decay scheme, including data from neutron spectroscopy, in addition to γ measurements of the multineutron emitters.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevc.108.064307},
journal = {Physical Review. C},
number = 6,
volume = 108,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2023},
month = {Fri Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2023}
}

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