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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 242, 2020
International Workshop on Fission Product Yields (FPY 2019)
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Article Number | 01002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Experiments | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024201002 | |
Published online | 28 September 2020 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024201002
Developments in New Measurements of Fission Cross-Sections, Fragment Yields, and Prompt and Quasi-Prompt Gammas for Nuclear Data Needs
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
* Corresponding author: hecht@unm.edu
Published online: 28 September 2020
The University of New Mexico Fission Spectrometer was developed to measure fission product yield, as part of the LANL SPIDER collaboration. The spectrometer operates as an E-v detector to extract product mass event-by-event, with a time of flight region followed by an ionization chamber for kinetic energy measurements. By using the ionization chamber as a singlecathode/single-anode time projection chamber, stopping power and thus Z information is extracted, for coupled A and Z measurements. New work is being performed to add gamma ray detectors in the data stream, placed near the target region for prompt gammas and near the ionization chamber for quasiprompt (>50 ns) and later gammas, correlated with individual fission products. A stand-alone parallel plate ionization chamber (PPIC) is also being developed for fission tagging gamma ray data. The PPIC will also allow discrimination between charged particle out events and (n,n’γ), and discriminate between alpha emission and fission. Using layers in the PPIC, other targets can be measured simultaneously with a calibration target, giving relative fission cross sections. Past measurements with the spectrometer were performed at LANSCE and we plan to continue measurements there. The current work is supported by the NNSA Stewardship Science Academic Alliance.
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