LB Feb2017 Se Investigations

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Neutron knockout on Se-82

While looking to see if certain lines are indeed selenium within the spectrum, it is worth noting that there are 2 states for Se-81. There is a metastable state with a 57 minute half life and a gamma emission of 103 keV. First I will attempt to show that this metastable state can indeed be seen in the spectrum.

Pure Selenium Sample

Below is an overlay of 5 plots with different cuts in time.

Se81 Metastable 103keV overlay.png

The half life was calculated using the program /data/IAC/Se/Feb2017Run/LB_WeightedFit.C

Se81 MetaStable HalfLife.png

Using the slope, the half life can be found to be 58.9 +/- 11 minutes

Below is a plot of the data when it is exponentiated

Se81 Meta ExpFit.png

Since the constant term is inside of the exponent, we must exponentiate the constant to get the (efficiency uncorrected) Activity at t=0.

So the uncorrected activity at t=0 is 379.56 +\- 25.04 Hz. Using the Ba-133 87 keV efficiency at 3.9 cm away from the face of detector B, which is 0.017, the corrected activity can be found to be

22327.06 +\- 1472.94 Hz which converts to 603.43 +\- 39.81 nCi

The sample was measured 55 minutes after the beam was shut off, which brings the activity to

1.14 +\- 0.07 uCi


10% Se Mixture

Below is an overlay of the spectra to see the decay over time of the line of interest

Se81 Meta 10%Se Overlay.png

Now plot the activity as a function of time to get the half life. The window in root was [98:108] on the energy axis. Looking at the counts, dividing by the total run time, and taking the natural log of the activity is how the linear fit is created.


PAA_Selenium