气体喷嘴反冲传输技术及在核科学中的应用

The gas-jet recoil transport technique is developed and improved as a new rapid and effective on-line and off beam method following "rabbit" apparatus in the study of short lives nuclei. It can transport the short half-life nuclear reaction products far from high radioactive area for collection and measurement at low background area. This technique has been widely used in the researches with accelerator and reactor. It is indispensable basic experimental technology and tool applied to nuclear reaction, spec...中文摘要：气体喷嘴反冲传输技术是继"跑兔"装置之后发展和完善起来的适合于短寿命核素研究的一种快速而有效的在线脱束方法。它能够将短寿命核反应产物传输至远离高辐射区的低本底场所进行收集和测量。该技术已在加速器和反应堆上得到了广泛的应用,是一种研究核反应、核谱学和合成与鉴别新元素、新核素的一种不可缺少的基本实验技术和工具。描述了气嘴系统的结构、基本原理、设计要求以及它的主要特性,特别是对系统的气体动力学机制以及各种参数对系统特性的影响等进行了讨论。最后,综述了它在核物理、核化学以及质谱学等领域的应用情况,并且给出了几个应用的典型例子。

Experimental study of the beta-delayed neutron decay of N-21

The first spectroscopic study for the beta decay of N-21 is carried out based on beta-n, beta-gamma, and beta-n-gamma coincidence measurements. The neutron-rich N-21 nuclei are produced by the fragmentation of the E/A=68.8 MeV Mg-26 primary beam on a thick Be-9 target and are implanted into a thin plastic scintillator that also plays the role of beta detector. The time of flight of the emitted neutrons following the beta decay are measured by the surrounding neutron sphere and neutron wall arrays. In addition, four clover germanium detectors are used to detect the beta-delayed gamma rays. Thirteen new beta-delayed neutron groups are observed with a total branching ratio of 90.5 +/- 4.2%. The half-life for the beta decay of N-21 is determined to be 82.9 +/- 7.5 ms. The level scheme of O-21 is deduced up to about 9 MeV excitation energy. The experimental results for the beta decay of N-21 are compared to the shell-model calculations.

Theoretical study on spherical proton emission

The proton radioactivity half-lives of spherical proton emitters are investigated within a generalized liquid drop model (GLDM), including the proximity effects between nuclei in a neck and the mass and charge asymmetry. The penetrability is calculated in the WKB approximation and the assault frequency is estimated by the quantum mechanism method considering the structure of the parent nucleus. The spectroscopic factor is taken into account in half-life calculation, which is obtained by employing the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory. The half-lives within the GLDM are compared with the experimental data and other theoretical values. The results show that the GLDM works quite well for spherical proton emitters when the assault frequency is estimated by the quantum mechanical method and the spectroscopic factor is considered.