Neutron inelastic scattering and reactions in natural Pb as a background in neutrinoless double-beta-decay experiments

Details Neutron inelastic scattering and reactions in natural Pb as a background in neutrinoless double-beta-decay experiments Neutron inelastic scattering and reactions in natural Pb as a background in neutrinoless double-beta-decay experiments

2008-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/0809.5074v3

Phys.Rev.C79:054604,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

6 pages, 3 figures. v2 resubmitted to Phys. Rev. C with minor changes. v3 with final review changes

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.79.054604

Inelastic neutron scattering and reactions on Pb isotopes can result in gamma rays near the signature endpoint energy in a number of double-beta decay isotopes. In particular, there are gamma-ray transitions in Pb-206,207,208 that might produce energy deposits at the 76-Ge Q value in Ge detectors used for double-beta decay searches. The levels that produce these gamma rays can be excited by (n,n'gamma) or (n,xngamma) reactions, but the cross sections are small and previously unmeasured. This work uses the pulsed neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center to directly measure reactions of interest to double-beta decay experiments. The cross section on natural Pb to produce the 2041-keV gamma ray from Pb-206 is measured to be 3.6 +/- 0.7 (stat.) +/- 0.3 (syst.) mb at ~9.6 MeV. The cross section on natural Pb to produce the 3062-keV gamma ray from Pb-207 and Pb-208 is measured to be 3.9 +/- 0.8 (stat.) +/- 0.4 (syst.) mb at the same energy. We report cross sections or place upper limits on the cross sections for exciting some other levels in Pb that have transition energies corresponding to Q value in other double-beta decay isotopes.

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