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The n+88Zr transmission experiment at DICER at LANSCE

ORAL

Abstract

The new Device for Indirect Capture Experiments on Radionuclides (DICER) installed at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), explores the possibility of determining neutron capture rates through the analysis of transmission data at the resolved resonance region. The synergy between DICER and the Isotope Production Facility (IPF), both at LANSCE, resulted in the measurement of a 88Zr sample (t1/2=83.4 days). A description of the device, the experimental preparation and the exciting results that explain the enormous neutron capture cross section of 88Zr, will be presented.

Presenters

  • Thanos Stamatopoulos

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

Authors

  • Thanos Stamatopoulos

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Paul Koehler

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Aaron J Couture

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Brad J DiGiovine

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Artem Matyskin

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Veronika Mocko

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jonathan T Morrell

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Ellen M O'Brien

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Gencho Y Rusev

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • John L Ullmann

    Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Christian E Vermeulen

    Los Alamos National Laboratory