Alpha-decay Rates of Yb and Gd in Solar Neutrino Detectors

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2002-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0203003v2

J.Phys.G28:643-648,2002

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

12 pages, 1 figure; An author name was corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/28/4/305

The $\alpha$-decay rates for the nuclides $^{168,170,171,172,173,174,176}$Yb and $^{148,150,152,154}$Gd have been estimated from transmission probabilities in a systematic $\alpha$-nucleus potential and from an improved fit to $\alpha$-decay rates in the rare-earth mass region. Whereas ${\alpha}$-decay of $^{152}$Gd in natural gadolinium is a severe obstacle for the use of gadolinium as a low-energy solar-neutrino detector, we show that ${\alpha}$-decay does not contribute significantly to the background in a ytterbium detector. An extremely long ${\alpha}$-decay lifetime of $^{168}$Yb is obtained from calculation, which may be close to the sensitivity limit in a low-background solar neutrino detector.

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