Channel effect in isomeric ratio of 137m,gCe produced in different nuclear reactions

• Published in: Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry 2017, Vol.314 (3), p.1777-1784
• Main Authors: Thiep, Tran Duc, An, Truong Thi, Cuong, Phan Viet, Hue, Bui Minh, Vinh, Nguyen The, Belov, A. G., Maslov, O. D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bremsstrahlung; Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Diagnostic Radiology; Flux (rate); Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Inorganic Chemistry; Neutron beams; Neutrons; Nuclear capture; Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear Physics; Nuclear reactions; Nuclear research; Physical Chemistry
• ISSN: 0236-5731; 1588-2780
• DOI: 10.1007/s10967-017-5521-6

This work presents the experimental study of the isomeric ratio of 137m Ce– 137g Ce produced in 138 Ce(γ, n) 137m,g Ce photonuclear reaction, in neutron capture reaction 136 Ce(n, γ) 137m,g Ce and in the two simultaneous reactions 138 Ce(γ, n) 137m,g Ce and 136 Ce(n, γ) 137m,g Ce in the mixed photon—neutron field by the activation method. The investigated samples were irradiated at the bremsstrahlung photon flux, in the epithermal and thermal-epithermal neutron beam and in the mixed photon-neutron field constructed at the electron accelerator Microtron MT-25 of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reaction, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. The results were analyzed, discussed and compared with those of other authors to examine the role of the channel effect in nuclear reaction and provide the nuclear data for theoretical model interpretation of nuclear reactions.