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