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20042026
most citedNew antineutrino energy spectra predictions from the summation of beta decay branches of the fission products

136 citations · 811 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.data-an2026

Rethinking Total Absorption Gamma Spectroscopy Deconvolution: Supervised Machine Learning vs Response-Matrix Methods

J. Balibrea-Correa, E. N{á}cher, C. Fonseca-Vargas +1

The extraction of -feeding distributions in Total Absorption -ray Spectroscopy constitutes a challenging inverse problem, particularly in nuclei with complex decay schemes in…

nucl-ex2022★ 22 cited

Improving Fission-product Decay Data for Reactor Applications: Part I -- Decay Heat

A. L. Nichols, P. Dimitriou, A. Algora +10

Effort has been expended to assess the relative merits of undertaking further decay-data measurements of the main fission-product contributors to the decay heat of neutron-irradiat…

nucl-ex2022

Total absorption -ray spectroscopy of the decays of Y

V. Guadilla, L. Le Meur, M. Fallot +42

The decays of the ground state (gs) and isomeric state (m) of Y have been studied with the total absorption -ray spectroscopy technique at the Ion Guide Isotope Separ…

nucl-ex2021★ 3 cited

Measurement of the neutron flux at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory with HENSA

S. E. A. Orrigo, J. L. Tain, N. Mont-Geli +14

We have performed a long-term measurement of the neutron flux with the High Efficiency Neutron Spectrometry Array HENSA in the Hall A of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. The Ha…

nucl-ex2021★ 3 cited

First results from the HENSA/ANAIS collaboration at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

N Mont-Geli, A Tarifeño-Saldivia, S E A Orrigo +24

The HENSA/ANAIS collaboration aims for the precise determination of the neutron flux that could affect ANAIS-112, an experiment looking for the dark matter annual modulation using…

nucl-ex2020★ 12 cited

Determination of Beta Decay Ground State Feeding of Nuclei of Importance for Reactor Applications

V. Guadilla, J. L. Tain, A. Algora +41

In -decay studies the determination of the decay probability to the ground state of the daughter nucleus often suffers from large systematic errors. The difficulty of the measur…

nucl-ex2019★ 15 cited

Total absorption -ray spectroscopy of the -delayed neutron emitters I and Rb

V. Guadilla, J. L. Tain, A. Algora +41

The decays of the -delayed neutron emitters I and Rb have been studied with the total absorption -ray spectroscopy technique. The purity of the beams provided…

nucl-ex2019★ 131 cited

Updated Summation Model: An Improved Agreement with the Daya Bay Antineutrino Fluxes

M. Estienne, M. Fallot, A. Algora +30

A new summation method model of the reactor antineutrino energy spectrum is presented. It is updated with the most recent evaluated decay databases and with our Total Absorption Ga…

nucl-ex2019★ 22 cited

Total absorption -ray spectroscopy of niobium isomers

V. Guadilla, A. Algora, J. L. Tain +42

The intensity distributions of the decays of Nb and Nb have been determined using the Total Absorption -Ray Spectro…

physics.ins-det2019★ 22 cited

Segmented YSO scintillation detectors as a new -implant detection tool for decay spectroscopy in fragmentation facilities

R. Yokoyama, M. Singh, R. Grzywacz +18

A newly developed segmented YSO scintillator detector was implemented for the first time at the RI-beam Factory at RIKEN Nishina Center as an implantation-decay counter. The result…

physics.ins-det2018★ 12 cited

The ORNL Analysis Technique for Extracting -Delayed Multi-Neutron Branching Ratios with BRIKEN

B. C. Rasco, N. T. Brewer, R. Yokoyama +15

Many choices are available in order to evaluate large radioactive decay networks. %multi-particle decay data. There are many parameters that influence the calculated -decay dela…

physics.ins-det2018★ 25 cited

Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector

V. Guadilla, J. L. Tain, A. Algora +42

DTAS is a segmented total absorption γ-ray spectrometer developed for the DESPEC experiment at FAIR. It is composed of up to eighteen NaI(Tl) crystals. In this work we study the pe…

nucl-ex2017★ 19 cited

Study of the -decay of Tc with Total Absorption -Ray Spectroscopy

V. Guadilla, A. Algora, J. L. Tain +42

The \b{eta}-decay of 100 Tc has been studied using the Total Absorption γ-Ray Spectroscopy technique at IGISOL. In this work the new DTAS spectrometer in coincidence with a cylindr…

physics.ins-det2016★ 3 cited

Characterization of a cylindrical plastic β-detector with Monte Carlo simulations of optical photons

V. Guadilla, A. Algora, J. L. Tain +39

In this work we report on the Monte Carlo study performed to understand and reproduce experimental measurements of a new plastic \b{eta}-detector with cylindrical geometry. Since e…

nucl-ex2016★ 54 cited

Total Absorption Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of 87Br, 88Br and 94Rb Beta-Delayed Neutron Emitters

E. Valencia, J. L. Tain, A. Algora +35

We investigate the decay of 87Br, 88Br and 94Rb using total absorption gamma-ray spectroscopy. These important fission products are beta-delayed neutron emitters. Our data show con…

nucl-ex2015★ 66 cited

First measurement of several -delayed neutron emitting isotopes beyond N=126

R. Caballero-Folch, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. Agramunt +62

The -delayed neutron emission probabilities of neutron rich Hg and Tl nuclei have been measured together with -decay half-lives for 20 isotopes of Au, Hg, Tl, Pb and Bi in th…

nucl-ex2015★ 15 cited

Shapes of the Pb ground states from beta decay studies using the total absorption technique

M. E. Estevez Aguado, A. Algora, J. Agramunt +25

The beta decay of Pb has been studied using the total absorption technique at the ISOLDE(CERN) facility. The beta-decay strength deduced from the measurements, combined…

nucl-ex2015★ 46 cited

Enhanced Gamma-Ray Emission from Neutron Unbound States Populated in Beta Decay

J. L. Tain, E. Valencia, A. Algora +35

Total absorption spectroscopy was used to investigate the beta-decay intensity to states above the neutron separation energy followed by gamma-ray emission in 87,88Br and 94Rb. Acc…

nucl-ex2015★ 85 cited

Total Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Rb Decay: A Major Contributor to Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum Shape

A. -A. Zakari-Issoufou, M. Fallot, A. Porta +44

The antineutrino spectra measured in recent experiments at reactors are inconsistent with calculations based on the conversion of integral beta spectra recorded at the ILL reactor.…

nucl-ex2012★ 136 cited

New antineutrino energy spectra predictions from the summation of beta decay branches of the fission products

M. Fallot, S. Cormon, M. Estienne +14

In this paper, we study the impact of the inclusion of the recently measured beta decay properties of the Tc, Mo, and Nb nuclei in an update…

nucl-ex2004★ 120 cited

Deformation of the N=Z nucleus 76Sr using beta-decay studies

E. Nacher, A. Algora, B. Rubio +15

A novel method of deducing the deformation of the N=Z nucleus 76Sr is presented. It is based on the comparison of the experimental Gamow-Teller strength distribution B(GT) from its…