Isomer production ratio of the Cd()Cd reaction in an -process branching point

早川 岳人*; 藤 暢輔; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 静間 俊行*; 岩本 信之; 千葉 敏*; 梶野 敏貴*

Physical Review C, 103(4), p.045801_1 - 045801_5, 2021/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.045801

A -decay unstable isomer with a half-life of 14.1 y at 264 keV in Cd is a branching point in the process, from which a weak branch reaches to a rare tin isotope Sn whose astrophysical origin has been an open problem. We have measured rays decaying to the ground state or the isomer in the Cd()Cd reaction using high-energy resolution detectors in conjunction with a time-of-flight method. The relative production ratios of the isomer to the total following the neutron capture reactions on Cd have been evaluated in an energy region of up to 9 keV, and the spin and parity of several resonances have been assigned.