14–15 Nov 2024
熊取交流センター すまいるズ 煉瓦館
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Decay branching ratios of 197mHg and 195mHg determined by decay curve analysis/崩壊曲線分析による197mHg と 195mHgの崩壊分岐比の決定

14 Nov 2024, 16:00
2h
熊取交流センター すまいるズ 煉瓦館

熊取交流センター すまいるズ 煉瓦館

大阪府泉南郡熊取町五門西1丁目10番1号

Speaker

Naohiko/直彦 Otuka/大塚 (IAEA/国際原子力機関)

Description

We studied the decay branching ratios of 197mHg (24 h) and 195mHg (42 h) by offline γ-ray spectroscopy of a natural platinum foil irradiated by α-particles at 29 MeV. We observed strong cooling time dependence in the isomeric ratios of 197Hg and 195Hg determined by the conventional activation cross section formula. To eliminate the cooling time dependence, we performed decay curve analysis with the decay branching ratios of these metastable states as adjustable parameters assuming that the isomeric ratios do not depend on the cooling time. We resolved the time dependence by adjusting the isomeric transition branching ratios to 94.5±0.7% and 48.9±1.8% for 197mHg and 195mHg , respectively. The 197mHg decay branching ratio obtained by us is very close to 94.68±0.09% published by Lebeda et al. in 2020 [1].

Reference
[1] O. Lebeda, F.G. Kondev, J. Cervenak, “Branching ratio and γ-ray emission probabilities in the decay of the Jπ=13/2+ isomer in 197Hg”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A Accelerat. Spectrom. Detect. Assoc. Equip. 959, (2020), 163481.

Primary author

Naohiko/直彦 Otuka/大塚 (IAEA/国際原子力機関)

Co-authors

Hiromitsu/宏光 Haba/羽場 (RIKEN/理化学研究所) Msayuki/正幸 Aikawa/合川 (Hokkaido University/北海道大学) Sandor/シャンドア Takacs/タカーチ (HUN-REN ATOMKI/HUN-REN原子核研究所) Shuichiro/修一郎 Ebata/江幡 (Saitama University/埼玉大学)

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