The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) presents James deBoer of University of Notre Dame, on “Neutron and Secondary γ -ray Spectroscopy for Astrophysics and Applications”, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in Edwards Accelerator Lab, Roger W. Finlay Conference Room.
James deBoer
Abstract: Nuclear reactions that produce neutrons have broad impacts in both nuclear astrophysics and applied nuclear physics. α-particle induced reactions on light nuclei provide the neutrons that fuel the creation of the heavy elements in a variety of stellar environments, produce background signals for large volume neutrino detectors, and play a pivotal role in the evolution of stored nuclear material. Yet many of these reactions remain poorly measured due in part to the experimental difficulties surrounding neutron detection.
In this talk, I will present a little utilized method of neutron spectroscopy that has made great strides in its practical usage in re- cent years. Further, I will discuss an alternate method of measuring many neutron producing reactions that populate excited states in the residual nucleus by instead measuring secondary γ-rays and the interpretation of their angular distributions in the phenomenological R-matrix framework.
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