Simultaneous Determination of Neutron-Induced Fission and Radiative Capture Cross Sections from Decay Probabilities Obtained with a Surrogate Reaction

Feb 13, 2020
5 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 125 (2020) 12, 122502
  • Published: Sep 19, 2020
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Abstract: (APS)
Reliable neutron-induced-reaction cross sections of unstable nuclei are essential for nuclear astrophysics and applications but their direct measurement is often impossible. The surrogate-reaction method is one of the most promising alternatives to access these cross sections. In this work, we successfully applied the surrogate-reaction method to infer for the first time both the neutron-induced fission and radiative capture cross sections of Pu239 in a consistent manner from a single measurement. This was achieved by combining simultaneously measured fission and γ-emission probabilities for the Pu240(He4,He′4) surrogate reaction with a calculation of the angular-momentum and parity distributions populated in this reaction. While other experiments measure the probabilities for some selected γ-ray transitions, we measure the γ-emission probability. This enlarges the applicability of the surrogate-reaction method.
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  • 8 pages, 3 figures
  • Nuclear Physics