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Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Oct 15;93(16):161103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.161103. Epub 2004 Oct 14.

Neutron capture cross section measurement of 151Sm at the CERN neutron time of flight facility (n_TOF).

Physical review letters

U Abbondanno, G Aerts, F Alvarez-Velarde, H Alvarez-Pol, S Andriamonje, J Andrzejewski, G Badurek, P Baumann, F Becvár, J Benlliure, E Berthoumieux, F Calviño, D Cano-Ott, R Capote, P Cennini, V Chepel, E Chiaveri, N Colonna, G Cortes, D Cortina, A Couture, J Cox, S Dababneh, M Dahlfors, S David, R Dolfini, C Domingo-Pardo, I Duran, M Embid-Segura, L Ferrant, A Ferrari, R Ferreira-Marques, H Frais-Koelbl, W Furman, I Goncalves, R Gallino, E Gonzalez-Romero, A Goverdovski, F Gramegna, E Griesmayer, F Gunsing, B Haas, R Haight, M Heil, A Herrera-Martinez, S Isaev, E Jericha, F Käppeler, Y Kadi, D Karadimos, M Kerveno, V Ketlerov, P Koehler, V Konovalov, M Krticka, C Lamboudis, H Leeb, A Lindote, I Lopes, M Lozano, S Lukic, J Marganiec, S Marrone, J Martinez-Val, P Mastinu, A Mengoni, P M Milazzo, A Molina-Coballes, C Moreau, M Mosconi, F Neves, H Oberhummer, S O'Brien, J Pancin, T Papaevangelou, C Paradela, A Pavlik, P Pavlopoulos, J M Perlado, L Perrot, M Pignatari, R Plag, A Plompen, A Plukis, A Poch, A Policarpo, C Pretel, J Quesada, S Raman, W Rapp, T Rauscher, R Reifarth, M Rosetti, C Rubbia, G Rudolf, P Rullhusen, J Salgado, J C Soares, C Stephan, G Tagliente, J Tain, L Tassan-Got, L Tavora, R Terlizzi, G Vannini, P Vaz, A Ventura, D Villamarin, M C Vincente, V Vlachoudis, F Voss, H Wendler, M Wiescher, K Wisshak,

Affiliations

  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy.

PMID: 15524972 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.161103

Abstract

The151Sm(n,gamma)152Sm cross section has been measured at the spallation neutron facility n_TOF at CERN in the energy range from 1 eV to 1 MeV. The new facility combines excellent resolution in neutron time-of-flight, low repetition rates, and an unsurpassed instantaneous luminosity, resulting in rather favorable signal/background ratios. The 151Sm cross section is of importance for characterizing neutron capture nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars. At a thermal energy of kT=30 keV the Maxwellian averaged cross section of this unstable isotope (t(1/2)=93 yr) was determined to be 3100+/-160 mb, significantly larger than theoretical predictions.

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