PT Journal
AU Yoshida, T
   Hagura, N
   Umezu, R
   Algora, A
   Tain, JL
   Jordan, D
   Tachibana, T
TI Impact of TAGS Measurement on FP Decay Data and Decay Heat Calculations
SO Journal of the Korean Physical Society
JI J. Korean Phys. Soc.
PY 2011
BP 1543
EP 1546
VL 59
IS 2
DI 10.3938/jkps.59.1543
LA English
DE Fission product; Decay data; JENDL; Beta decay; TAGS; Gross theory; Pandemonium
AB Nuclear level schemes are usually constructed from the high-resolution data of the gamma-ray transitions which immediately follow the beta-decay of their parents. It is recognized that this procedure may lead to the "pandemonium problem". If we use the decay data suffering from the pandemonium problem for the decay heat calculations the beta-ray component will be overestimated and the gamma-ray component underestimated. The beta-feeding data obtained by the total absorption gamma-ray spectroscopy (TAGS) is proved to be free from this problem. In the case of the Japanese data base for the FP decay heat calculation, the theoretical values based on the gross theory of beta-decay are widely introduced to circumvent the pandemonium problem. The gross theory, however, is not good at describing any beta-transition exclusively concentrating to a single level in the daughter nucleus. The TAGS method is also proved to be able to save this situation. Further, we have to change our comprehension over the currently published decay schemes.
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