https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11602-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Gamma cascades in gadolinium isotopes
Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
Received:
19
December
2022
Accepted:
9
May
2023
Published online:
27
May
2023
The compound nucleus model is employed to calculate the decay after neutron capture by the gadolinium isotopes
Gd and
Gd. The respective
cascades are analyzed for possible use in rare-event searches like
decay as neutron-veto for neutron energies in the range from 0.1 keV to 10 MeV.
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