Lifetime measurement of the first excited state of Be-7 using the Doppler shift attenuation method applied to an exothermic nuclear reaction
- Authors
- Kim, JH; Lee, CS; Kwon, YK; Kim, JY; Huh, JY; Moon, JY; Lee, JH; Kim, JC; Youn, M; Kim, IC; Park, JH; Kim, JS; Kim, DK; Hahn, KI
- Issue Date
- May-2002
- Publisher
- KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
- Keywords
- lifetime; Doppler shift attenuation method; Compton-suppressed germanium gamma-ray detectors; exothermic
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, v.40, no.5, pp 802 - 806
- Pages
- 5
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
- Volume
- 40
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 802
- End Page
- 806
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/25120
- ISSN
- 0374-4884
- Abstract
- The lifetime of the first excited state of Be-7 (E-x = 0.429 MeV; J(pi) = 1/2(-)) was measured by mean of the Doppler shift attenuation method. An exothermic B-10(rho,alphagamma) Be-7 nuclear reaction was used to populate 7 Be using 2-MeV protons delivered from the Tandetron accelerator at Seoul National University. Two Compton-suppressed germanium gamma-ray detectors were used to reduce the Compton background around the 429-keV photopeak. A Monte Carlo simulation code specific to the present exothermic reaction kinematics was developed in order to predict the velocity history of a recoiled nucleus as a function of time, The mean lifetime of the first excited state of Be-7 has been deduced to be 169+/-51 fs. Despite the nature of the exothermic reaction, which makes assessment of the velocity distribution difficult especially for a backward recoiled nucleus, our experimental value is in fair agreement with the adopted value of 192+/-25 fs, obtained from the endothermic Li-7(rho,ngamma) Be-7 nuclear reaction.
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