Determination of the emission probability of the 21.54 keV gamma ray in the decay of Sm-151

作者:Shen, Hongtao*; He, Ming; Ruan, Xiang Dong; Dong, Kejun; Jiang, Shan
来源:Physical Review C, 2011, 84(5): 054307.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.84.054307

摘要

The emission probability of the 21.54 keV gamma ray in the decay of Sm-151 was experimentally determined by means of the measurements of the 21.54 keV gamma-ray emission rate and the activity of Sm-151 with high-resolution Ge, Si(Li) gamma-ray spectrometry and liquid scintillation counting (LSC), respectively. The resulting emission probability of the 21.54 keV gamma ray is 0.0324% with a standard uncertainty of 0.0013% based on a quadratic summation of the uncertainty components from the measurements of the gamma-ray emission rate and the activity of Sm-151. The result agrees with the latest literature value (partially theoretically based), 0.0318 +/- 0.0022%, with reduced uncertainty.