Recent progress in AMS measurement of 182Hf at the CIAE

In order to improve the accuracy of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurement for ¹⁸²Hf/¹⁸⁰Hf, a series of measurements have been taken in the AMS laboratory at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). The major ones include the instantaneous monitoring of ¹⁸⁰HfF₅^- current, testing the stability of transmission, the alternate measurements of an unknown sample and standard, and the origin identification and minimization of background ¹⁸²W. The experimental details and the improvement in the measurement accuracy, as well as some useful suggestions for better satisfying the requirements of certain practical applications, are presented in this paper.     

Research on Measurement of 182Hf with HI-13 AMS System

¹⁸²Hf with half-life of about (8.90±0.09) Ma is an extinct radionuclide and can only be produced by a supernova explosion in nature. Therefore ¹⁸²Hf is an ideal candidate nuclide for the study on possible supernova explosions in the vicinity of the earth within the last 100 million years. In addition, ¹⁸²Hf is a long-lived radionuclide of particular interest for nuclear engineering. Accurate measurement of ultra-trace ¹⁸²Hf is very important for reactor design,studies on nuclear cosmo-physics and other fields. With an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), it is possible to detect the trace amounts of ¹⁸²Hf. In this paper, the detection method of ¹⁸²Hf with HI-13 AMS system at China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) and the chemical procedures to reduce ¹⁸²W interference are presented. The energy and TOF two-dimension spectra of ¹⁸²Hf and ¹⁸³W for blank and a series of standard samples have been obtained, respectively. The ¹⁸²W contribution to the counts in ¹⁸²Hf peak was corrected by ¹⁸³W normalization. The detection sensitivity of this AMS facility for ¹⁸²Hf/¹⁸⁰Hf ratio measurement is about 4.15±10^－11 at present.     

New Neutron-Rich Nuclide 185Hf

New neutron-rich nuclide ¹⁸⁵Hf has been identified for the first time.The ¹⁸⁵Hf was produced via the ¹⁸⁶W(n,2p)¹⁸⁵Hf reaction by 14MeV neutron irradiation of natural metallic tungsten powder and separated by radiochemical methods.The identification of ¹⁸⁵Hf was based on the observation of decay γ-ray of its daughter ¹⁸⁵Ta.A half-life of 3.5±0.6min was determined for ¹⁸⁵Hf by fitting the measured growth and decay curve of the 177.59keV γ-ray which is the strongest decay γ-ray of ¹⁸⁵Ta.In addition,a new γ-ray of 164.5±0.5keV was found and assigned to ¹⁸⁵Hf.     

Searching Triaxial Superdeformation in 175Hf

A two-dimensional Total Routhian Surface(TRS) calculation is carried out in order to ascertain if there is triaxial superdeformation in ¹⁷⁵Hf. A five quasi-particle configuration is chosen in the calculation. Unfortunately, the TRS minimum does not show up in the total potential energy surface.     

加速器质谱14C断代

着重介绍加速器质谱计（ＡＭＳ）１４Ｃ断代方法,北京大学近三年来ＡＭＳ１４Ｃ断代工作,还介绍了夏商周断代工程及其ＡＭＳ１４Ｃ断代工作.The method of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C dating, some AMS 14 C dating work in Peking University during the recent three years and the project of Xia Shang Zhou chronology are introduced.     

Langevin study of neutron emission in the reactions 16O+181Ta and 19F+178Hf

The pre-scission neutrons measured in the reactions ¹⁶O+¹⁸¹Ta and ¹⁹F+¹⁷⁸Hf are studied via a Langevin equation coupled with a statistical decay model. We find that because of the mass asymmetry of different entrance channels, the spin distributions of compound nuclei would be different, consequently, the measured neutrons in these two reactions would also different. This means that the entrance channel will affect the particle emission in the fission process of hot nuclei.     

Particle-Number Conserving Calculation for Low-Lying Excited High-K Multi-Quasiparticle Bands in 172,174Hf

Using the particle-number conserving method for treating the cranked shell model,the microscopic mechanism of the variation of the kinematic moments of inertia with rotational frequency ω for the rare-earth deformed nuclei ^172,174Hf is investigated. The observed J⁽¹⁾ and angular momentum alignment are reproduced satisfactorily in the PNC calculation,in which no free parameters are involved. The PNC analysis shows that the difference between the variations of J⁽¹⁾ with ω for the high K multi-quasiparticle bands and for ground state band is mainly due to the Pauli blocking effect of high j intruder orbitals near the Fermi surface.     

加速器质谱测量182Hf的效率研究

182Hf是长寿命放射性核素,其半衰期约为9×106 a. 测量环境样品中的182Hf对核天体物理学和核工程的研究具有重要的意义. 加速器质谱(AMS)作为一门超高灵敏核分析技术,可以测量样品中极其微量的182 Hf. 本工作在中国原子能科学研究院HI 13串列加速器核物理国家实验室的AMS装置上对182 Hf的AMS效率进行了测量,得到了初步的测量结果.     

Particle-Number Conserving Analysis for High K Multi-Quasiparticle Bands in Odd-A Deformed Nuclei 173,175Hf

Using the Particle-number Conserving (PNC) method for treating the cranked shell model, the high K multi-quasiparticle bands in odd-A deformed nuclei ^173,175Hf are analyzed, including the variation with rotational frequency of the moment of inertia, angular momentum alignment and occupation probability of each cranked Nilsson orbital. No free parameters are involved in the PNC calculation and the experimental results are reproduced well. The microscopic mechanism of the difference between the multi-quasiparticle high K bands and the yrast bands in neighboring even-even nuclei is investigated, where the blocking effects of high j intruder orbitals near the Fermi surface play a crucial role.     

Developing AMS measurement of 59Ni at CIAE

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurement of ⁵⁹Ni has been established at CIAE with the HI-13 tandem accelerator and the recently developed ΔE-Q3D detection system. ⁵⁹Ni standard and commercial NiO samples were measured to check the performance of the ΔE-Q3D detection system on ⁵⁹Ni isobar separation and suppression. An overall suppression factor of about 10⁷ for the interfering isobar ⁵⁹Co resulting in detection sensitivity as low as 3.8×10^-13 atomic ratio (⁵⁹Ni/Ni) has been obtained. Based on these techniques, the AMS measurement method of ⁵⁹Ni with high sensitivity is developed.     

Angular Distribution of the 12C(6He, 7Li)11B Reaction

Angular distribution of the ¹²C(⁶He,⁷Li)¹¹B transfer reaction is measured with a secondary ⁶He beam of 36.4MeV for the first time. The experimental angular distribution is well reproduced by the distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) calculation. The success of the present experiment shows that it is feasible to measure one-nucleon transfer reaction on a light nucleus target with the secondary beam facility of the HI-13 tandem accelerator at China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beijing.     

Optical Potential Parameters for Halo Nucleus System ^6He＋^12C from Transfer Reaction ^11B（^7Li, ^6He）^12C

The optical potential parameters for the halo nucleus system ^6He＋^12C are extracted from fits to the measured angular distributions of ^11B（^7Li, ^6He）12C reaction at energies of 18.3 and 28.3MeV with distorted-wave Born approximation analysis. The characters of the obtained optical potentiM parameters are basically consistent with the results extracted from the fits to the elastic-scattering angular distributions in the literature.     

Measurement of Cross Sections for Pb(n,x)203Hg,W(n,x)182Ta and W(n,x)183Ta Reactions Induced by 14 MeV Neutrons

The cross sections for Pb(n,x)²⁰³Hg,W(n,x)^l82Ta and W(n,x)¹⁸³Ta reactions have been measured by the activation method. The neutron fluences were determined by the cross sections of ⁹³Nb (n,2n)^92mNb reaction. The neutron energies in the measurements were determined by the cross section ratios of Zr(n,2n)^89m+gZr and Nb(n,2n)^92mNb reactions.     

Progress in AMS Measurement of 182Hf at CIAE

Accelerator mass spectrometry （AMS） is one of the most promising methods to detect minute amounts of 182Hf. However, the sensitivity of 5×10^-11 for ^182Hf/180Hf obtained previously by the AMS method at China Institute of Atomic Energy （CIAE） cannot meet the requirement of some applications. We present some new improvements of measurement method for AMS measurement of 182Hf at the CIAE HI？13 tandem accelerator system. As a result, a sensitivity of 1.0×10^-11 for 182Hf/180Hf is achieved.     

SINGLE PROTON TRANSFER REACTION INDUCED BY HEAVY ION 40Ar(11B, 10Be)41K

The angular distribution has been measured for elastic scattering on ⁴⁰Ar with ¹¹B and for the single proton transfer reaction ⁴⁰Ar(¹¹B, ¹⁰Be)⁴¹K at the incident beam energy of 50 MeV. The elastic scattering cross section has been fitted in terms of the optical model. The EFR-DWBA aproach with recoil effect has been used to analyze the differential cross section. The spectroscopic factor was extracted.     

ON THE REACTION MECHANISM OF ALPHA TRANSFER REACTION FOR 16O(16O, 12C)20Ne

The oscillatory structure appeared in the differential cross section of the reaction for ¹⁶O(¹⁶O, ¹²C)²⁰Ne may be explained by particle transfer from covalent channel to ionic channel in the nuclear molecular orbital theory.     

Measurement of Angular Distribution for the ^8Li（p,d）^7Li Reaction

The ^8Li（p, d）^7 Li reaction plays an important role in the inhomogeneous Big Bang nucleosynthesis and in the seed-nuclide production phase for the r-process. For the first time, its angular distribution at backward angles was measured in inverse kinematics at Ec.m.=4.0 MeV by using an ^8Li secondary beam. The result of measurement includes the contributions of ^8Li（p, d0）^7Li and ^8Li（p, d1）^7Li^＊. The ^8Li（p, d0）^7Li component is estimated to be 40%-58% in the mixture angular distribution by analysing the measured result.     

AMS measurement of In-situ produced cosmogenic 10Be in Loess Quartz in Luochuan

Loess is the most important and the most typical continental classic sediments of Quaternary. So the measurement of In-situ produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be is expected to be used for the Loess stratigraphic age. But the production rate of In-situ produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in Loess quartz is very low. It requires very high sensitivity and accuracy of measurement. This work has measured the concentrations of ¹⁰Be of two layers in Loess section of Luochuan including L8, L9 and the concentrations of ¹⁰Be in (of) blank sample with the HI-13 AMS system at China Insitute of Atomic Energy(CIAE), then calculated the content of ¹⁰Be in loess quartz for each layer. The ratio of ¹⁰Be/⁹Be was found in the range of 10^－13. The background of ¹⁰Be/⁹Be was about 3×10^－14.     

Measurements of 79Se with AMS based on extracting molecular negative ions

A new method for measuring selenium-79 with AMS, which is based on extracting molecular negative ions, is described in this paper. According to the experimental results, the extraction ion form SeO₂^－ could depress the interference of Bromine-79 as much as 5 order levels, that is to say, the background of ⁷⁹Br can be deducted to ⁷⁹Br/Se≈10^－10. By the way, the chemical form of sample and preparation flow was also developed. Finally, three ⁷⁹Se AMS calibration standard samples with theoretical ⁷⁹Se/Se ratios of 5.06×10^－7, 6.87×10^－8, 5.40×10^－10 were obtained and the method of ⁷⁹Se measurement was set up, which actualized transmission and detection of ⁷⁹Se. By using our Bragg curve detector, the two isobars ⁷⁹Br and ⁷⁹Se could be partly identified to a certain extent and ⁷⁹Se can be identified from ⁷⁹Br about 1 order level. AMS measurements of the three calibration standard samples above were performed and good linearity was obtained. The sensitivity of the measurement is (5.16±1.80)×10^－11.     

Radial Expansion Flow in Reactions of 40Ca+58Fe and 40Ca+58Ni

By means of using an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Langevin equation which includes isospin-dependent symmetry energy, Coulomb energy, isospin-dependent nucleon-nucleon cross sections, Pauli blocking, and initialization, the radial expansion flow of reaction systems ⁴⁰Ca+⁵⁸Ni and ⁴⁰Ca+⁵⁸Fe at 53, 100, 150, and 200 MeV/u in the central collisions were studied. It has shown that the more neutron rich system exhibits smaller radial expansion flow. It was found that the neutron rich system had smaller threshold energy which may provide a new method to determine the isospin dependent nuclear equation of state from calculated result and linear fitting result.