New measurement of neutron capture resonances in Bi-209

Domingo-Pardo, C., Abbondanno, U., Aerts, G., Alvarez-Pol, H., Alvarez-Velarde, F., Andriamonje, S., Andrzejewski, J., Assimakopoulos, P., Audouin, L., Badurek, G., Baumann, P., Becvar, F., Berthoumieux, E., Calvino, F., Cano-Ott, D., Capote, R., de Albornoz, A. Carrillo, Cennini, P., Chepel, V., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortes, G., Couture, A., Cox, J., Dahlfors, M., David, S., Dillman, I., Dolfini, R., Dridi, W., Duran, I., Eleftheriadis, C., Embid-Segura, M., Ferrant, L., Ferrari, A., Ferreira-Marques, R., Fitzpatrick, L., Frais-Koelbl, H., Fujii, K., Furman, W., Gallino, R., Goncalves, I., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Goverdovski, A., Gramegna, F., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Haas, B., Haight, R., Heil, M., Herrera-Martinez, A., Igashira, M., Isaev, S., Jericha, E., Kadi, Y., Kappeler, F., Karamanis, D., Karadimos, D., Kerveno, M., Ketlerov, V., Koehler, P., Konovalov, V., Kossionides, E., Krticka, M., Lamboudis, C., Leeb, H., Lindote, A., Lopes, I., Lozano, M., Lukic, S., Marganiec, J., Marques, L., Marrone, S., Mastinu, P., Mengoni, A., Milazzo, P. M., Moreau, C., Mosconi, M., Neves, F., Oberhummer, H., Oshima, M., O'Brien, S., Pancin, J., Papachristodoulou, C., Papadopoulos, C., Paradela, C., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Pavlopoulos, P., Perrot, L., Plag, R., Plompen, A., Plukis, A., Poch, A., Pretel, C., Quesada, J., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rosetti, M., Rubbia, C., Rudolf, G., Rullhusen, P., Salgado, J., Sarchiapone, L., Savvidis, I., Stephan, C., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Tassan-Got, L., Tavora, L., Terlizzi, R., Vannini, G., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Villamarin, D., Vincente, M. C., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Voss, F., Walter, S., Wendler, H., Wiescher, M. and Wisshak, K. (2006) New measurement of neutron capture resonances in Bi-209. Physical Review C (nuclear physics) (2). ISSN 2469-9985
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The neutron capture cross section of Bi-209 has been measured at the CERN n_TOF facility by employing the pulse-height-weighting technique. Improvements over previous measurements are mainly because of an optimized detection system, which led to a practically negligible neutron sensitivity. Additional experimental sources of systematic error, such as the electronic threshold in the detectors, summing of gamma-rays, internal electron conversion, and the isomeric state in bismuth, have been taken into account. gamma-Ray absorption effects inside the sample have been corrected by employing a nonpolynomial weighting function. Because Bi-209 is the last stable isotope in the reaction path of the stellar s-process, the Maxwellian averaged capture cross section is important for the recycling of the reaction flow by alpha decays. In the relevant stellar range of thermal energies between kT=5 and 8 keV our new capture rate is about 16% higher than the presently accepted value used for nucleosynthesis calculations. At this low temperature an important part of the heavy Pb-Bi isotopes are supposed to be synthesized by the s-process in the He shells of low mass, thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch stars. With the improved set of cross sections we obtain an s-process fraction of 19 +/- 3% of the solar bismuth abundance, resulting in an r-process residual of 81 +/- 3%. The present (n,gamma) cross-section measurement is also of relevance for the design of accelerator driven systems based on a liquid metal Pb/Bi spallation target.
Item Type Article
Keywords STARS; CHRONOMETERS; DETECTOR; SYSTEM; FACILITY; ELEMENTS; S-PROCESS; ABUNDANCES; CROSS-SECTION; GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
Date Deposited 29 May 2025 09:01
Last Modified 29 May 2025 09:01

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