Experimental study of $^{100}$Tc $\beta$ decay with total absorption $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy
Résumé
The β decay of Tc100 has been studied by using the total absorption γ-ray spectroscopy technique at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line facility in Jyväskylä. In this work the new Decay Total Absorption γ-ray Spectrometer in coincidence with a cylindrical plastic β detector has been employed. The β intensity to the ground state obtained from the analysis is in good agreement with previous high-resolution measurements. However, differences in the feeding to the first-excited state as well as weak feeding to a new level at high excitation energy have been deduced from this experiment. Theoretical calculations performed in the quasiparticle random-phase approximation framework are also reported. Comparison of these calculations with our measurement serves as a benchmark for calculations of the double β decay of Mo100.
Mots clés
technetium: semileptonic decay
total-absorption counter
gamma ray
ground state
random phase approximation: quasiparticle
molybdenum: double-beta decay
excited state: energy
ruthenium
branching ratio
density
spectrometer
efficiency
benchmark
phonon
Monte Carlo
numerical calculations
experimental results