CGS17

The future gamma-MRI imaging modality will allow the simultaneous exploitation the advantages of SPECT – sensitivity of gamma-ray detection, and MRI – spatial resolution and flexibility. The combination of these technique requires use gamma-emitting nuclei (like in SPECT) with higlhly polarized spins, leading to anisotropic emission of gamma-ray, and thus make possible to manipulate these...

Nuclear beta decay is often the first source of experimental information on nuclear structure when we are not too close to the drip lines. However, one of the main physical quantities relevant to this process, the beta-intensity distribution, is not easy to measure in medium-mass or heavy nuclei where high density of states is at reach within the Q-beta window. In these cases, the Total...

The $\mathrm{^{21}Ne}$(p,$\gamma$)$\mathrm{^{22}Na}$ reaction is expected to be the main producer of the radioactive isotope $\mathrm{^{22}Na}$ ($t_{1/2}$ = 2.602 years) in novae. Novae explosions are the result of a thermonuclear runaway occurring on the surface of a white dwarf accreting material from a less evolved companion star in a close binary system that ejects a significant amount of...

Cadmium has many practical applications where significant thermal neutron fluences are expected, owing to the large thermal capture cross-section of $^{113}$Cd. This feature has led to many applications that use cadmium to screen these thermal neutrons. Once such field where this is utilized is in non-destructive assay techniques that employ cadmium liners to interrogate spent fuel assemblies,...

Iron is an important component of many structural materials; examples include energy production complexes, laboratories, devices, and shipping containers that often cross borders. The properties of iron alloys in the structural materials—strength, ductility, and stability—depend on defects that develop and grow from neutron scattering and (n, p) and (n, ) reaction rates. 54Fe is only 5.5%...