Neutron Induced Charged particle Emission
Astrophysics and Astronomy
Medical Physics, Biomedical Technology
Final Report Abstract
The interest in neutron-induced reactions is manifold. Their relevance reaches from medical applications like cancer therapy over technical application like the durability of nuclear power plant components to the question of the origin of the elements in the universe. Various scenarios contribute to the chemical evolution of the universe. A great number of nuclear reaction rates must be known to understand the nucleosynthesis. Neutron-induced reactions are mainly responsible for the formation of elements heavier than iron. This project focuses on reactions with charged particles in the exit channel. For their measurement protons, a particles or fission products with ranges in the order of 100 µm have to be detected. Despite the great interest, only a few of those reactions have been measured with high accuracy. In the scope of the NICE project, after extensive Monte-Carlo simulations, a new detector for measuring neutron-induced reactions with α particles in the exit channel was designed and built. Subsequently, first test measurements were conducted in order to study the detectors behaviour with different sources for background events and with α sources. Furthermore, the neutron capture cross-section of 209Bi was measured at 25 meV and 25 keV via activation technique.
Publications
- Investigation of Neutron-Induced Reactions at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Nuclei in the Cosmos XV 219, 253-257 (2019)
René Reifarth, Lukas Bott, Benjamin Brückner, Ozan Dogan, Markus Dworac, Anne Endres, Philipp Erbacher, Stefan Fiebiger, Roman Gernhäuser, Kathrin Göbel, Fabian Hebermehl, Tanja Heftrich, Christoph Langer, Tanja Kausch, Nadine Klapper, Kafa Khasawneh, Christoph Köppchen, Sabina Krasilovskaja, Deniz Kurtulgil, Markus Reich, Markus S. Schöffler, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Christian Schwarz, Zuzana Slavkovská, Kurt E. Stiebing, Benedikt Thomas, Meiko Volknandt, Mario Weigand, Michael Wiescher, Patric Ziel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_42) - NICE- Neutron Induced Charged particle Emission, NPA-IX, Mainz, Germany, 9/2019
Ahmad Al-Khasawneh
- NICE-Neutron Induced Charged particle Emission, DPG Frühjahrstagung 2019, München, Germany, 3/2019
Ahmad Al-Khasawneh
- Investigation of 54Fe(n,γ)55Fe and 35Cl(n, γ)36Cl reaction cross sections at keV energies by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. European Physical Journal Web of Conferences 232, 2005 (2020)
Zuzana Slavkovská, Anton Wallner, René Reifarth, Stefan Pavetich, Lukas Bott, Benjamin Brückner, Kathrin Göbel, Kafa Al-Khasawneh, Dominik Koll, Silke Merchel, Markus Reich, Meiko Volknandt, Weigand, Mario
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023202005) - NICE - Neutron Induced Charged particle Emission. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1668, 012021 (2020)
K. Al-Khasawneh, E. Borris, B. Brückner, K. Eberhardt, P. Erbacher, S. Fiebiger, R. Gernhäuser, K. Göbel, T. Heftrich, T. Kisselbach, D. Kurtulgil, C. Langer, M. Reich, R. Reifarth, D. Renisch, B. Thomas, M. Volknandt, M. Weigand
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1668/1/012021) - NICE - Neutron Induces Charged particle Emission. Dissertation, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2020
Kafa Al-Khasawneh
