The study of alpha‐particle decay schemes of heavy nuclei
作者:
D. Desmarais,
J. L. Duggan,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 58,
issue 11
页码: 1079-1085
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1119/1.16275
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
关键词: ALPHA DECAY;Q−VALUE;BENCH−SCALE EXPERIMENTS;SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION;QUANTUM MECHANICS;BRANCHING RATIO;AMERICIUM 241;ALPHA SPECTROMETERS;CALIBRATION;CURIUM 244
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A nuclear experiment has been designed for use in the undergraduate laboratory. Following a theoretical treatment of alpha barrier penetration and the kinematics andQvalue of alpha decay, a semiclassical calculation is made for the half‐life for alpha decay, followed by a more exact quantum mechanical result. The decay schemes of three commercially available sources are studied. The branching ratios to various excited states in the residual nuclei are measured along with the precise energies of the decay. The absolute activity of one source (241Am) is determined from its measured alpha activity, and from its gamma activity as measured by a low‐energy photon detector.
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