Stellar 30-keV neutron capture in 94,96Zr and the 90Zr(γ, n) 89Zr photonuclear reaction with a high-power liquid-lithium target

被引：26

作者：

Tessler, M. ^{[1
]}

Paul, M. ^{[1
]}

Arenshtam, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Feinberg, G. ^{[1
,2
]}

Friedman, M. ^{[1
]}

Halfon, S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kijel, D. ^{[2
]}

Weissman, L. ^{[2
]}

Aviv, O. ^{[2
]}

Berkovits, D. ^{[2
]}

Eisen, Y. ^{[2
]}

Eliyahu, I. ^{[2
]}

Haquin, G. ^{[2
]}

Kreisel, A. ^{[2
]}

Mardor, I. ^{[2
]}

Shimel, G. ^{[2
]}

Shor, A. ^{[2
]}

Silverman, I. ^{[2
]}

Yungrais, Z. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel

[2] Soreq NRC, IL-81800 Yavne, Israel

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 2015年 / 751卷

关键词：

Li-7(p; n); High-intensity neutron source; Maxwellian Averaged Cross Section (MACS); (94); Zr-96(n; gamma); Zr-90(gamma; CROSS-SECTIONS; S-PROCESS; NUCLEAR-DATA; SIMULATION; ZIRCONIUM; GRAINS; MODELS; AU-197;

D O I：

10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.058

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A high-power Liquid-Lithium Target (LiLiT) was used for the first time for neutron production via the thick-target Li-7(p, n)Be-7 reaction and quantitative determination of neutron capture cross sections. Bombarded with a 1-2mA proton beam at 1.92 MeV from the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF), the setup yields a 30-keV quasi-Maxwellian neutron spectrum with an intensity of 3-5 x10(10) n/s, more than one order of magnitude larger than present near-threshold Li-7(p, n) neutron sources. The setup was used here to determine the 30-keV Maxwellian averaged cross section (MACS) of Zr-94 and Zr-96 as 28.0 +/- 0.6mb and 12.4 +/- 0.5 mb respectively, based on activation measurements. The precision of the cross section determinations results both from the high neutron yield and from detailed simulations of the entire experimental setup. We plan to extend our experimental studies to low-abundance and radioactive targets. In addition, we show here that the setup yields intense high-energy (17.6 and 14.6 MeV) prompt capture gamma rays from the Li-7(p,gamma)Be-8 reaction with yields of similar to 3 x10(8) gamma s(-1) mA(-1) and similar to 4 x10(8) gamma s(-1) mA(-1), respectively, evidenced by the Zr-90(gamma, n) Zr-89 photonuclear reaction. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

引用

页码：418 / 422

页数：5

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