Measurement of the $^{159}$Tb(n, $\gamma$) cross section at the CSNS Back-n facility
| Title: | Measurement of the $^{159}$Tb(n, $\gamma$) cross section at the CSNS Back-n facility |
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| Authors: | Zhang, S., Li, G., Jiang, W., Wang, D. X., Ren, J., Li, E. T., Huang, M., Tang, J. Y., Ruan, X. C., Wang, H. W., Li, Z. H., Chen, Y. S., Liu, L. X., Li, X. X., Fan, Q. W., Fan, R. R., Hu, X. R., Wang, J. C., Li, X., Niu, 1D. D., Song, N., Gu, M. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | Astrophysics Nuclear Experiment |
| Subject Terms: | Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| More Details: | The stellar (n, $\gamma$) cross section data for the mass numbers around A $\approx$ 160 are of key importance to nucleosynthesis in the main component of the slow neutron capture process, which occur in the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP--AGB). The new measurement of (n, $\gamma$) cross sections for $^{159}$Tb was performed using the C$_6$D$_6$ detector system at the back streaming white neutron beam line (Back-n) of the China spallation neutron source (CSNS) with neutron energies ranging from 1 eV to 1 MeV. Experimental resonance capture kernels were reported up to 1.2 keV neutron energy with this capture measurement. Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) were derived from the measured $^{159}$Tb (n, $\gamma$) cross sections at $kT$ = 5 $\sim$ 100 keV and are in good agreement with the recommended data of KADoNiS-v0.3 and JEFF-3.3, while KADoNiS-v1.0 and ENDF-VIII.0 significantly overestimate the present MACS up to 40$\%$ and 20$\%$, respectively. A sensitive test of the s-process nucleosynthesis was also performed with the stellar evolution code MESA. Significant changes in abundances around A $\approx$ 160 were observed between the ENDF/B-VIII.0 and present measured rate of $^{159}$Tb(n, $\gamma$)$^{160}$Tb in the MESA simulation. Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.107.045809 |
| Access URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01820 |
| Accession Number: | edsarx.2212.01820 |
| Database: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.107.045809 |
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