Test of GEANT 4 Simulation Efficiency Predictions for the Short-lived Isotope Counting System
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2024-10-07
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Bo, Andrew
Belanger, Avery
Fall, Owen
Yuly, Mark
Hertz, Shoshanna
Richardson, Silas
Wilson, Liam
Ramos, Delvin
Woods, Michelle
Padalino, Stephen J.
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Houghton University
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Ultrafast high power lasers may be used to generate short pulses of energetic ions that can be used for nuclear activation cross section measurements The Short Lived Isotope Counting System ( was developed to count the beta decays of radioactive product nuclei resulting from light ion reactions generated in this way One important SLICS parameter, which has been determined using a Geant 4 simulation, is the detection efficiency, the ratio of detected betas to number of product nuclei To test this prediction, an experiment was carried out using the SUNY Geneseo Pelletron A deuteron beam incident on a thin natural Li target created 840 ms half life 8 Li via the 7 Li( d,p 8 Li reaction The beta particles from the 8 Li decay were identified and counted by the SLICS detector, a dE E phoswich detector telescope Alpha particles from 8 Li(d,α) 4 He on the same natural lithium target were counted by a silicon surface barrier detector at various backward angles The efficiency of the SLICS detector was determined using the number of the α and β particles counted by the two detectors and the previously measured cross sections and Li isotopic abundances.
This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy [National Nuclear Security Administration] University of Rochester “National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program” under Award Number(s) DE NA 0004144 and by SUNY Geneseo and Houghton University
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66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Atlanta, GA, October 7-11, 2024
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