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Author n_TOF Collaboration (Mendoza, E. et al); Giubrone, G.; Tain, J.L.; Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.
Title Measurement and analysis of the Am-241 neutron capture cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 97 Issue 5 Pages 054616 - 21pp
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Abstract The Am-241(n, gamma) cross section has been measured at the nTOF facility at CERN with the nTOF BaF2 Total Absorption Calorimeter in the energy range between 0.2 eV and 10 keV. Our results are analyzed as resolved resonances up to 700 eV, allowing a more detailed description of the cross section than in the current evaluations, which contain resolved resonances only up to 150-160 eV. The cross section in the unresolved resonance region is perfectly consistent with the predictions based on the average resonance parameters deduced from the resolved resonances, thus obtaining a consistent description of the cross section in the full neutron energy range under study. Below 20 eV, our results are in reasonable agreement with JEFF-3.2 as well as with the most recent direct measurements of the resonance integral, and differ up to 20-30% with other experimental data. Between 20 eV and 1 keV, the disagreement with other experimental data and evaluations gradually decreases, in general, with the neutron energy. Above 1 keV, we find compatible results with previously existing values.
Address [Mendoza, E.; Cano-Ott, D.; Balibrea, J.; Becares, V; Garcia, A. R.; Gonzalez, E.; Lopez, D.; Martinez, T.] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol CIEM, Madrid, Spain, Email: emilio.mendoza@ciemat.es
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Author n_TOF Collaboration (Lerendegui-Marco, J. et al.); Domingo-Pardo, C.; Tain, J.L.; Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.
Title Radiative neutron capture on Pu-242 in the resonance region at the CERN n_TOF-EAR1 facility Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 97 Issue 2 Pages 024605 - 21pp
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Abstract The spent fuel of current nuclear reactors contains fissile plutonium isotopes that can be combined with uranium to make mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. In this way the Pu from spent fuel is used in a new reactor cycle, contributing to the long-term sustainability of nuclear energy. However, an extensive use of MOX fuels, in particular in fast reactors, requires more accurate capture and fission cross sections for some Pu isotopes. In the case of Pu-242 there are sizable discrepancies among the existing capture cross-section measurements included in the evaluations (all from the 1970s) resulting in an uncertainty as high as 35% in the fast energy region. Moreover, postirradiation experiments evaluated with JEFF-3.1 indicate an overestimation of 14% in the capture cross section in the fast neutron energy region. In this context, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) requested an accuracy of 8% in this cross section in the energy region between 500 meV and 500 keV. This paper presents a new time-of-flight capture measurement on Pu-242 carried out at nTOF-EAR1 (CERN), focusing on the analysis and statistical properties of the resonance region, below 4 keV. The Pu-242(n, gamma) reaction on a sample containing 95(4) mg enriched to 99.959% was measured with an array of four C6D6 detectors and applying the total energy detection technique. The high neutron energy resolution of nTOF-EAR1 and the good statistics accumulated have allowed us to extend the resonance analysis up to 4 keV, obtaining new individual and average resonance parameters from a capture cross section featuring a systematic uncertainty of 5%, fulfilling the request of the NEA.
Address [Lerendegui-Marco, J.; Guerrero, C.; Quesada, J. M.; Cortes-Giraldo, M. A.; Praena, J.; Sabate-Gilarte, M.] Univ Seville, Dept Fis Atom Mol & Nucl, E-41012 Seville, Spain, Email: cguerrero4@us.es
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000424190700001 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3474
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Author AGATA Collaboration (Hadynska-Klek, K. et al); Gadea, A.
Title Quadrupole collectivity in Ca-42 from low-energy Coulomb excitation with AGATA Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 97 Issue 2 Pages 024326 - 20pp
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Abstract ACoulomb-excitation experiment to study electromagnetic properties of Ca-42 was performed using a 170-MeV calcium beam from the TANDEM XPU facility at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro. gamma rays from excited states in Ca-42 were measured with the AGATA spectrometer. The magnitudes and relative signs of ten E2 matrix elements coupling six low-lying states in Ca-42, including the diagonal E2 matrix elements of 2(1)(+) and 2(2)(+) states, were determined using the least-squares code GOSIA. The obtained set of reduced E2 matrix elements was analyzed using the quadrupole sum rule method and yielded overall quadrupole deformation for 0(1),(+)(2) and 2(1,2)(+) states, as well as triaxiality for 0(1,2)(+) states, establishing the coexistence of a weakly deformed ground-state band and highly deformed slightly triaxial sideband in Ca-42. The experimental results were compared with the state-of-the-art large-scale shell-model and beyond-mean-field calculations, which reproduce well the general picture of shape coexistence in Ca-42.
Address [Hadynska-Klek, K.; Napiorkowski, P. J.; Zielinska, M.; Srebrny, J.; Abraham, T.; Iwanicki, J.; Jaworski, G.; Kisielinski, M.; Komorowska, M.; Kowalczyk, M.; Ozmen, S. F.; Palacz, M.; Prochniak, L.; Rusek, K.; Wrzosek-Lipska, K.] Univ Warsaw, Heavy Ion Lab, Pasteura 5A, PL-02093 Warsaw, Poland, Email: katarzyna.hadynska@lnl.infn.it
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000425604200003 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3506
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Author IDS Collaboration (Lica, R. et al); Morales, A.I.
Title Evolution of deformation in neutron-rich Ba isotopes up to A=150 Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 97 Issue 2 Pages 024305 - 12pp
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Abstract The occurrence of octupolar shapes in the Ba isotopic chain was recently established experimentally up to N = 90. To further extend the systematics, the evolution of shapes in the most neutron-rich members of the Z = 56 isotopic chain accessible at present, Ba-148,Ba-150, has been studied via beta decay at the ISOLDE Decay Station. This paper reports on the first measurement of the positive-and negative-parity low-spin excited states of 150Ba and presents an extension of the beta-decay scheme of Cs-148. Employing the fast timing technique, half-lives for the 2(1)(+) level in both nuclei have been determined, resulting in T-1/2 = 1.51(1) ns for Ba-148 and T-1/2 = 3.4(2) ns for Ba-150. The systematics of low-spin states, together with the experimental determination of the B(E2 : 2(+) -> 0(+)) transition probabilities, indicate an increasing collectivity in Ba148-150, towards prolate deformed shapes. The experimental data are compared to symmetry conserving configuration mixing (SCCM) calculations, confirming an evolution of increasingly quadrupole deformed shapes with a definite octupolar character.
Address [Lica, R.; Borge, M. J. G.; Madurga, M.; Kurcewicz, J.; Rapisarda, E.] CERN, ISOLDE EP, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, Email: giovanna.benzoni@mi.infn.it
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000424089400005 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3471
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Author n_TOF Collaboration (Wright, T. et al); Domingo-Pardo, C.; Giubrone, G.; Tain, J.L.; Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.
Title Measurement of the U-238(n,gamma) cross section up to 80 keV with the Total Absorption Calorimeter at the CERN n_TOF facility Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 96 Issue 6 Pages 064601 - 11pp
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Abstract The radiative capture cross section of a highly pure (99.999%), 6.125(2) grams and 9.56(5) x 10(-4) atoms/barn areal density U-238 sample has been measured with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) in the 185 m flight path at the CERN neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF. This measurement is in response to the NEA High Priority Request list, which demands an accuracy in this cross section of less than 3% below 25 keV. These data have undergone careful background subtraction, with special care being given to the background originating from neutrons scattered by the 238U sample. Pileup and dead-time effects have been corrected for. The measured cross section covers an energy range between 0.2 eV and 80 keV, with an accuracy that varies with neutron energy, being better than 4% below 25 keV and reaching at most 6% at higher energies.
Address [Wright, T.; Billowes, J.; Ryan, J. A.; Ware, T.] Univ Manchester, Manchester, Lancs, England, Email: tobias.wright@manchester.ac.uk
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000416848700005 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3392
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Author AGATA Collaboration (Vogt, A. et al); Gadea, A.
Title High-spin structures in Xe-132 and Xe-133 and evidence for isomers along the N=79 isotones Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 96 Issue 2 Pages 024321 - 14pp
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Abstract The transitional nuclei Xe-132 and Xe-133 are investigated after multinucleon-transfer (MNT) and fusionevaporation reactions. Both nuclei are populated (i) in Xe-136 + 2(08P)b MNT reactions employing the highresolution Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) coupled to the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA, (ii) in the Xe-136 + Pt-198 MNT reaction employing the GAMMASPHERE spectrometer in combination with the gas-detector array CHICO, and (iii) as an evaporation residue after a Te-130(alpha, xn) Xe134-xn fusion-evaporation reaction employing the HORUS gamma-ray array at the University of Cologne. The high-spin level schemes are considerably extended above the J(pi) = (7(-)) and (10+) isomers in Xe-132 and above the 11/2(-) isomer in Xe-133. The results are compared to the high-spin systematics of the Z = 54 as well as the N = 78 and N = 79 chains. Furthermore, evidence is found for a long-lived (T-1/2 >> μs) isomer in Xe-133 which closes a gap along the N = isotones. Shell-model calculations employing the SN100PN and PQM130 effective interactions reproduce the experimental findings and provide guidance to the interpretation of the observed high-spin features.
Address [Vogt, A.; Birkenbach, B.; Reiter, P.; Arnswald, K.; Blazhev, A.; Eberth, J.; Fransen, C.; Fu, B.; Hess, H.; Hetzenegger, R.; Hirsch, R.; Jolie, J.; Karayonchev, V.; Kaya, L.; Mueller-Gatermann, C.; Queiser, M.; Regis, J. -M.; Saed-Samii, N.; Seidlitz, M.; Siebeck, B.; Wolf, K.; Zell, K. O.] Univ Cologne, Inst Kernphys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany, Email: andreas.vogt@ikp.uni-koeln.de
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000408346100002 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3252
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Author Aydin, S. et al; Gadea, A.; Huyuk, T.
Title High-spin states and lifetimes in S-33 and shell-model interpretation in the sd-fp space Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 96 Issue 2 Pages 024315 - 10pp
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Abstract The structure of the S-33 nucleus was investigated in the Mg-24(N-14, alpha p) fusion-evaporation reaction using a 40-MeV N-14 beam. The level scheme was extended up to an excitation energy of 11.7 MeV and spin 19/2+. Lifetimes of the intermediate-and high-spin states have been investigated by the Doppler shift attenuation method. Data were compared with different shell-model calculations where effective interactions involving two main shells, the sd and the fp, are used.
Address [Aydin, S.; Kavillioglu, F.] Aksaray Univ, Dept Phys, TR-68100 Aksaray, Turkey, Email: 01sezgin@gmail.com
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000407994600003 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3256
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Author AGATA Collaboration (John, P.R. et al); Gadea, A.
Title In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich platinum isotope Pt-200 toward the N=126 shell gap Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 95 Issue 6 Pages 064321 - 8pp
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Abstract The neutron-rich nucleus Pt-200 is investigated via in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy to study the shape evolution in the neutron-rich platinum isotopes towards the N = 126 shell closure. The two-neutron transfer reaction Pt-198(Se-82, Se-80)Pt-200 is used to populate excited states of Pt-200. The Advanced Gamma Ray Tracking Array (AGATA) demonstrator coupled with the PRISMA spectrometer detects gamma rays coincident with the Se-80 recoils, the binary partner of Pt-200. The binary partner method is applied to extract the gamma-ray transitions and build the level scheme of Pt-200. The level at 1884 keV reported by Yates et al. [S. W. Yates, E. M. Baum, E. A. Henry, L. G. Mann, N. Roy, A. Aprahamian, R. A. Meyer, and R. Estep, Phys. Rev. C 37, 1889 (1988)] was confirmed to be at 1882.1 keV and assigned as the (6(1)(+)) state. An additional gamma ray was found and it presumably deexcites the (8(1)(+)) state. The results are compared with state-of-the-art beyond mean-field calculations, performed for the even-even Pt190-204 isotopes, revealing that Pt-200 marks the transition from the gamma-unstable behavior of lighter Pt nuclei towards a more spherical one when approaching the N = 126 shell closure.
Address [John, P. R.; Mengoni, D.; Lunardi, S.; Gottardo, A.; Lenzi, S.; Menegazzo, R.; Michelagnoli, C.; Montagnoli, G.; Montanari, D.; Recchia, F.; Scarlassara, F.] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy, Email: philipp.john@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000404021900005 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3178
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Author PreSPEC and AGATA Collaborations (Ralet, D. et al); Domingo-Pardo, C.; Gadea, A.; Huyuk, T.
Title Lifetime measurement of neutron-rich even-even molybdenum isotopes Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 95 Issue 3 Pages 034320 - 11pp
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Abstract Background: In the neutron-rich A approximate to 100 mass region, rapid shape changes as a function of nucleon number as well as coexistence of prolate, oblate, and triaxial shapes are predicted by various theoretical models. Lifetime measurements of excited levels in the molybdenum isotopes allow the determination of transitional quadrupole moments, which in turn provides structural information regarding the predicted shape change. Purpose: The present paper reports on the experimental setup, the method that allowed one to measure the lifetimes of excited states in even-even molybdenum isotopes from mass A = 100 up to mass A = 108, and the results that were obtained. Method: The isotopes of interest were populated by secondary knock-out reaction of neutron-rich nuclei separated and identified by the GSI fragment separator at relativistic beam energies and detected by the sensitive PreSPEC-AGATA experimental setup. The latter included the Lund-York-Cologne calorimeter for identification, tracking, and velocity measurement of ejectiles, and AGATA, an array of position sensitive segmented HPGe detectors, used to determine the interaction positions of the gamma ray enabling a precise Doppler correction. The lifetimes were determined with a relativistic version of the Doppler-shift-attenuation method using the systematic shift of the energy after Doppler correction of a gamma-ray transition with a known energy. This relativistic Doppler-shift-attenuation method allowed the determination of mean lifetimes from 2 to 250 ps. Results: Even-even molybdenum isotopes from mass A = 100 to A = 108 were studied. The decays of the low-lying states in the ground-state band were observed. In particular, two mean lifetimes were measured for the first time: tau = 29.7(-9.1)(+11.3) ps for the 4(+) state of Mo-108 and tau = 3.2(-0.7)(+ 0.7) ps for the 6(+) state of Mo-102. Conclusions: The reduced transition strengths B(E2), calculated from lifetimes measured in this experiment, compared to beyond-mean-field calculations, indicate a gradual shape transition in the chain of molybdenum isotopes when going from A = 100 to A = 108 with a maximum reached at N = 64. The transition probabilities decrease for Mo-108 which may be related to its well-pronounced triaxial shape indicated by the calculations.
Address [Ralet, D.; Cortes, M. L.; Gregor, E.; Guastalla, G.; Givechev, A.; Habermann, T.; Louchart-Henning, C.; Merchan, E.; Pietralla, N.; Reese, M.; Singh, P. P.; Stahl, C.] Tech Univ Darmstadt, Inst Kernphys, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany, Email: ralet@csnsm.in2p3.fr
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Author AGATA Collaboration (Vogt, A. et al); Gadea, A.
Title Isomers and high-spin structures in the N=81 isotones Xe-135 and Ba-137 Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C
Volume 95 Issue 2 Pages 024316 - 17pp
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Abstract The high-spin structures and isomers of the N = 81 isotones Xe-135 and Ba-137 are investigated after multinucleon-transfer (MNT) and fusion-evaporation reactions. Both nuclei are populated (i) in Xe-136+ U-238 and (ii) Xe-136+ Pb-208 MNT reactions employing the high-resolution Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) coupled to the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA, (iii) in the Xe-136+ Pt-198 MNT reaction employing the gamma-ray array GAMMASPHERE in combination with the gas-detector array CHICO, and (iv) via a B-11+ Te-130 fusion-evaporation reaction with the HORUS gamma-ray array at the University of Cologne. The high-spin level schemes of Xe-135 and Ba-137 are considerably extended to higher energies. The 2058-keV (19/2(-)) state in Xe-135 is identified as an isomer, closing a gap in the systematics along the N = 81 isotones. Its half-life is measured to be 9.0(9) ns, corresponding to a reduced transition probability of B(E2,19/2(-) -> 15/2(-)) = 0.52(6) W.u. The experimentally deduced reduced transition probabilities of the isomeric states are compared to shell-model predictions. Latest shell-model calculations reproduce the experimental findings generally well and provide guidance to the interpretation of the new levels.
Address [Vogt, A.; Birkenbach, B.; Reiter, P.; Blazhev, A.; Arnswald, K.; Eberth, J.; Fu, B.; Geibel, K.; Hess, H.; Hirsch, R.; Jolie, J.; Kaya, L.; Lewandowski, L.; Liang, X.; Mueller-Gatermann, C.; Queiser, M.; Radeck, F.; Rosiak, D.; Saed-Samii, N.; Schneiders, D.; Seidlitz, M.; Siebeck, B.; Steinbach, T.; Wiens, A.; Zell, K. O.] Univ Cologne, Inst Kernphys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany, Email: andreas.vogt@ikp.uni-koeln.de
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