AMS & Nuclear Data at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS)

Dr. John Wilkinson
(Ph.D. class of 2022)
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Recent efforts studying the decay of ¹¹Be highlight a potential new resonance between the proton and neutron separation energies of ¹¹B. First noted by Riisager et al. 2014, surprisingly large yields of ¹⁰Be were observed in this narrow energy band. Follow on studies disagree on the existence or underlying properties of the resonance. An alternative approach studying the ⁷Li(a,p)¹⁰Be reaction will be presented. Offline analysis via ¹⁰Be accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is performed at CAMS. A broader facility overview and other nuclear data efforts will also be highlighted. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52 07NA27344 and supported by the LLNL-LDRD Program under Project No. 26-LW-028.

Hosted by Dr. deBoer