First evidence of multiple β-delayed neutron emission for isotopes with a > 100
Caballero-Folch, R., Dillmann, I., Agramunt, J., Tain, J. L., Domingo-Pardo, C., Algora, A., . . . Voss, A. (2017). First evidence of multiple β-delayed neutron emission for isotopes with a > 100. Acta Physica Polonica B, 48 (3), 517-522. doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.48.517
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The β-delayed neutron emission probability, Pn, of very neutron-rich
nuclei allows us to achieve a better understanding of the nuclear structure
above the neutron separation energy, Sn. The emission of neutrons can become
the dominant decay process in neutron-rich astrophysical phenomena
such as the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). There are around
600 accessible isotopes for which β-delayed one-neutron emission (β1n) is
energetically allowed, but the branching ratio has only been determined for
about one third of them. β1n decays have been experimentally measured
up to the mass A ∼ 150, plus a single measurement of 210Tl. Concerning
two-neutron emitters (β2n), ∼ 300 isotopes are accessible and only 24 have
been measured so far up to the mass A = 100. In this contribution, we
report recent experiments which allowed the measurement of β1n emitters
for masses beyond A > 200 and N > 126 and identified the heaviest β2n
emitter measured so far, 136Sb.