J. E. Escher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Physical Review C | 2010
J. E. Escher; Frank S. Dietrich
Motivated by the renewed interest in the surrogate nuclear reactions approach, an indirect method for determining compound-nuclear reaction cross sections, the prospects for determining (n,{gamma}) cross sections for deformed rare-earth and actinide nuclei are investigated. A nuclear reaction model is employed to simulate physical quantities that are typically measured in surrogate experiments and used to assess the validity of the Weisskopf-Ewing and ratio approximations, which are typically employed in the analysis of surrogate reactions. The expected accuracy of (n,{gamma}) cross sections extracted from typical surrogate measurements is discussed and limitations of the approximate methods are illustrated. Suggestions for moving beyond presently employed approximations are made.
Physical Review C | 2007
Christian Forssén; F. S. Dietrich; J. E. Escher; R. D. Hoffman; K. Kelley
Indirect methods play an important role in the determination of nuclear reaction cross sections that are hard to measure directly. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using the so-called surrogate method to extract neutron capture cross sections for low-energy compound-nuclear reactions in spherical and near-spherical nuclei. We present the surrogate method and develop a statistical nuclear reaction simulation to explore different approaches to utilizing surrogate reaction data. We assess the success of each approach by comparing the extracted cross sections with a predetermined benchmark. In particular, we employ regional systematics of nuclear properties in the
Physical Review Letters | 2010
G. P. A. Nobre; Frank S. Dietrich; J. E. Escher; I. J. Thompson; Michel Dupuis; J. Terasaki; J. Engel
34\ensuremath{\leqslant}Z\ensuremath{\leqslant}46
European Physical Journal A | 2017
G. Potel; G. Perdikakis; B. V. Carlson; M. C. Atkinson; W. H. Dickhoff; J. E. Escher; M. S. Hussein; J. Lei; W. Li; A. O. Macchiavelli; A. M. Moro; F. M. Nunes; Steven D Pain; J. Rotureau
region to calculate
Physical Review C | 2014
A. M. Hurst; R. B. Firestone; B. Sleaford; N.C. Summers; Zs. Révay; L. Szentmiklósi; M. S. Basunia; T. Belgya; J. E. Escher; M. Krtička
(n,\ensuremath{\gamma})
Physical Review C | 2009
J. M. Allmond; C. W. Beausang; L. A. Bernstein; D. L. Bleuel; J.T. Burke; J. E. Escher; S. R. Lesher; N. D. Scielzo; L. Phair; H. Jeppesen; M. A. McMahan; J. O. Rasmussen; K. E. Evans; B. L. Goldblum
cross sections for a series of Zr isotopes and to simulate a surrogate experiment and the extraction of the desired cross section. We identify one particular approach that may provide very useful estimates of the cross section, and we discuss some of the limitations of the method. General recommendations for future (surrogate) experiments are also given.
Physical Review C | 2014
L. Hlophe; V. Eremenko; Ch. Elster; F. M. Nunes; Goran Arbanas; J. E. Escher; I. J. Thompson
A microscopic calculation of reaction cross sections for nucleon-nucleus scattering was performed by coupling the elastic channel to all particle-hole excitations in the target and one-nucleon pickup channels. The particle-hole states may be regarded as doorway states through which the flux flows to more complicated configurations, and subsequently to long-lived compound nucleus resonances. Target excitations for (40,48)Ca, 58Ni, 90Zr, and 144Sm were described in a random-phase framework using a Skyrme functional. Reaction cross sections obtained agreed very well with experimental data and predictions of a fitted optical potential. Couplings between inelastic states were found to be negligible, while the pickup channels contribute significantly. For the first time observed absorptions are completely accounted for by explicit channel coupling, for incident energies between 10 and 40 MeV.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | 2014
H. D. Choi; R. B. Firestone; M. S. Basunia; A. M. Hurst; B. Sleaford; N.C. Summers; J. E. Escher; Zs. Révay; L. Szentmiklósi; T. Belgya; M. Krtička
Abstract.We present an account of the current status of the theoretical treatment of inclusive (d, p) reactions in the breakup-fusion formalism, pointing to some applications and making the connection with current experimental capabilities. Three independent implementations of the reaction formalism have been recently developed, making use of different numerical strategies. The codes also originally relied on two different but equivalent representations, namely the prior (Udagawa-Tamura, UT) and the post (Ichimura-Austern-Vincent, IAV) representations. The different implementations have been benchmarked for the first time, and then applied to the Ca isotopic chain. The neutron-Ca propagator is described in the Dispersive Optical Model (DOM) framework, and the interplay between elastic breakup (EB) and non-elastic breakup (NEB) is studied for three Ca isotopes at two different bombarding energies. The accuracy of the description of different reaction observables is assessed by comparing with experimental data of (d, p) on 40,48Ca. We discuss the predictions of the model for the extreme case of an isotope (60Ca) currently unavailable experimentally, though possibly available in future facilities (nominally within production reach at FRIB). We explore the use of (d, p) reactions as surrogates for
Physical Review C | 2013
L. Hlophe; Ch. Elster; R.C. Johnson; N. J. Upadhyay; F. M. Nunes; Goran Arbanas; V. Eremenko; J. E. Escher; I. J. Thompson
(n,\gamma )
Physical Review C | 2011
G. P. A. Nobre; F. S. Dietrich; J. E. Escher; I. J. Thompson; Michel Dupuis; J. Terasaki; J. Engel
(n,γ) processes, by using the formalism to describe the compound nucleus formation in a