Determination of the energy transitions and half-lives of Rubidium nuclei
OPEN PHYSICS, cilt.16, sa.1, ss.63-68, 2018 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2018
- Doi Numarası: 10.1515/phys-2018-0012
- Dergi Adı: OPEN PHYSICS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.63-68
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Rubidium, photonuclear reaction, half-life, energy transitions, PHOTON-ACTIVATION ANALYSIS, CLINICAL LINAC, DATA SHEETS, S-DALINAC, ACCELERATOR, DECAY, NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, SCATTERING, FACILITY, ZINC
- Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The photonuclear reactions, first extensively studied in the 1970's and performed using the gamma rays obtained via bremsstrahlung, are a standard nuclear physics experiment. In this study, a non-enriched Rubidium sample was irradiated with photons produced by a clinical linear electron accelerator (cLINACs) with energies up to 18 MeV with the aim of activating it through photonuclear reactions. The activated sample was measured with a high purity germanium detector (HPGe) with the aim of measuring the transition energies and half-lives. The spectroscopic analysis performed on the obtained data yielded high quality results for the transition energies with precision matching or surpassing the literature data. For the half-lives the results were consistent with the literature, most notably the half-life of Rb-84m decay was determined as 20.28(2) m. The results for both energies and half-lives further show that the clinical linear accelerators can be successfully used as an efficient tool in experimental nuclear research endeavors.