Document Eur. Phys. J. A 36, 31-36 (2008)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2007-10548-5
Bremsstrahlung emission accompanying the α-decay of 214Po
G. Giardina1, G. Fazio1, G. Mandaglio1, M. Manganaro1, C. Saccá2, N. V. Eremin3, A. A. Paskhalov3, D. A. Smirnov3, S. P. Maydanyuk4 and V. S. Olkhovsky41 Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Messina, 98166, Messina, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Università di Messina, 98166, Messina, Italy
3 Skobeltsin Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia
4 Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 03680, Kiev, Ukraine
giardina@nucleo.unime.it
(Received 14 November 2007 / Published online 10 April 2008)
Abstract
We analyze the bremsstrahlung emission obtained by the α -γ coincidence measurements to investigate on the α -decay dynamics of the 214 Po nucleus. We performed the experiment using a radioactive 226 Ra source leading, by α -decays, to the 214 Po nucleus, and the apparatus with the Si detector for α-particles, the NaI(Tl) detector able to collect photons with energies up to about 1 MeV. We compare the experimental data with the quantum-mechanical calculations and find a good agreement between theory and experiment for photon energies up to 765 keV. In the experimental data of the bremsstrahlung spectrum one can see the presence of slight oscillations.
PACS23.60.+e - α decay.
23.20.-g - Electromagnetic transitions.
27.80.+w - 190 ≤ A ≤ 219.
27.90.+b - 220 ≤ A. Correspondence: giardina@nucleo.unime.it
Communicated by C. Signorini
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