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W. Achenbach

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Fission fragment anisotropy for the 242mAm fission isomer by spin exchange pumping with polarized rubidium vapour

1992

Abstract The foundations of an experiment have been worked out with which, in principle, the spin, hyperfine constants and the isomer shift of the 14 ms fission isomer 242mAm can be measured. Such an experiment would be based on the fission fragment anisotropy signal which has actually been observed in this work after spin exchange pumping with polarized rubidium vapour in an optical buffer gas cell. A decrease of the count rate of (12±4)% has been measured at 90% with respect to the quantization axis. From this result it is concluded that the nuclear spin of the 242mAm fission isomer must be larger than 1. The low-energy fission isomers originating from the 242Pu(d, 2n)242mAm reaction have…

Nuclear reactionNuclear and High Energy PhysicsCluster decayFissionChemistrychemistry.chemical_elementAmericiumRubidiumNuclear physicsPlutonium-242Physics::Atomic and Molecular ClustersAtomic physicsNuclear ExperimentSpin (physics)InstrumentationHyperfine structureNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
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Measurement of the Parity Violation in Quasi-Elastic Electroweak Electron-Scattering from 9Be

1986

In the energy range of about 300 MeV, available at the Mainz- Linac, quasi-elastic scattering dominates the total cross section at backward scattering angles. This process can therefore be detected efficiently by a gas Cerenkov-counter with large solid angle. This is a prerequisit for experiments on parity violation due to the very small asymmetry effect being of the order of 1|10-5 at these energies [1]. The counting system built, consists of 12 elliptical mirrors, imaging the Cerenkov photons seen in target direction onto photomultipliers. The mirrors cover the full azimuth for polar angles 115°≦ϑ≦145°, thus covering 20% of 4π (Fig. 1). The detector has been proved to yield a statistical …

PhysicsAzimuthParticle physicsPhotonScatteringmedia_common.quotation_subjectElectroweak interactionSolid angleElectronAsymmetryElectron scatteringComputational physicsmedia_common
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