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- Klintefjord, M., et al.
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Measurement of lifetimes in Fe-62,Fe-64, Co-61,Co-63, and Mn-59
- 2017
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Ingår i: PHYSICAL REVIEW C. - 2469-9985. ; 95:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lifetimes of the 4(1)(+) states in Fe-62,Fe-64 and the 11/2(1)(-) states in Co-61,Co-63 and Mn-59 were measured at the Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL) facility by using the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) and the large-acceptance variable mode spectrometer (VAMOS++). The states were populated through multinucleon transfer reactions with a U-238 beam impinging on a Ni-64 target, and lifetimes in the picosecond range were measured by using the recoil distance Doppler shift method. The data show an increase of collectivity in the iron isotopes approaching N = 40. The reduction of the subshell gap between the nu 2p(1/2) and nu 1g(9/2) orbitals leads to an increased population of the quasi-SU(3) pair (nu 1g(9/2), nu 2d(5/2)), which causes an increase in quadrupole collectivity. This is not observed for the cobalt isotopes withN < 40 for which the neutron subshell gap is larger due to the repulsive monopole component of the tensor nucleon-nucleon interaction. The extracted experimental B(E2) values are compared with large-scale shell-model calculations and with beyond-mean-field calculations with the Gogny D1S interaction. A good agreement between calculations and experimental values is found, and the results demonstrate in particular the spectroscopic quality of the Lenzi, Nowacki, Poves, and Sieja (LNPS) shell-model interaction.
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- Trombetta, Débora M., et al.
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Fast neutron- and γ-ray coincidence detection for nuclear security and safeguards applications
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. - : Elsevier. - 0168-9002 .- 1872-9576. ; 927, s. 119-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of passive and active interrogation techniques to evaluate materials concerning their content of special nuclear materials (SNM) is fundamental in fields such as nuclear safeguards and security. Detection of fast neutrons and γ rays, which are a characteristic signature of SNM, has several potential advantages compared with the commonly used systems based on thermal and epithermal neutron counters, the most important being the much shorter required coincidence times and the correspondingly reduced rate of background events due to accidental coincidences. Organic scintillators are well suited for this purpose due to their fast timing properties and composition being based on carbon and hydrogen with large elastic scattering cross-sections for fast neutrons. Organic scintillators also have suitable detection efficiency for γ rays and exhibit pulse shape properties which are favorable for distinguishing between neutrons and γ rays. This paper presents experimental results and Monte Carlo simulations for a neutron–neutron and γ-neutron coincidence detection setup for identification and characterization of SNM based on such detectors. The measurements were carried out on different samples of PuO 2 material with varying content of 240 Pu at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy. The results demonstrate significant advantages of fast neutron-γ coincidence detection over fast neutron–neutron coincidence counting for certain applications, e.g. for nuclear security systems, even in the presence of moderate amounts of shielding.
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