Search for super-allowed alpha decay around <sup>100</sup>Sn region

ORAL

Abstract

The enhancement of alpha-decay probability for nuclei above 100Sn is expected since valence protons and neutrons above Z=N=50 occupy the same single-particle orbitals. The program to search for new alpha emitters in this region was initiated at JAEA Tandem Laboratory at Tokai, Japan. 

To detect an alpha decay chain from 112Ba->108Xe->104Te->100Sn, we developed a new implantation detector system. The detector combines the capability for the spacial recoil-decay correlations typically implemented with use of the Double sided Silicon Strip Detector, but is able to provide a very rapid response time due to used fo the fast scintillator. Proof of principle measurement was performed at the Recoil Mass Separator at JAEA Tandem accelerator. The performance of the detector and future plan to search for the alpha decay chain will be presented. 

*This work was supported in part by the Reimei Research Program (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) and Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER40983, by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Presenters

  • Shintaro Go

    • Kyushu Univerisity, Kyushu
    • Kyushu University

Authors

  • Shintaro Go

    • Kyushu Univerisity, Kyushu
    • Kyushu University
  • Yongchi Xiao

    • Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Robert K. Gryzwacz

    • Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • University of Tennessee
  • Andrei Andreyev

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Michael Bentley

    • University of York
  • Kentaro Hirose

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Hiroshi Ikezoe

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • David Jenkins

    • University of York
  • Romain Leguillon

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Hiroyuki Makii

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Chiara Mazzochi

    • University of Warsaw
  • Katsuhisa Nishio

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Riccardo Orlandi

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    • JAEA
  • Costel Petrache

    • Centre de Sciences Nucl´eaires et de Sciences de la Mati`ere
    • Centre de Sciences Nucl´eaires et de Sciences de la Mati`ere, Universit´e Paris-Sud and CNRS / IN2P3
  • Krzysztof Piotr Rykaczewski

    • Oak Ridge National Lab
  • James Smallcombe

    • TRIUMF
  • Bob Wadsworth

    • University of York