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Total Absorption Spectroscopy Study of the Beta Decay of ⁸⁶Br and ⁹¹Rb

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arxiv 1704.01915 v1 pith:U6AMEYIX submitted 2017-04-06 nucl-ex

Total Absorption Spectroscopy Study of the Beta Decay of ⁸⁶Br and ⁹¹Rb

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The beta decays of $^{86}$Br and $^{91}$Rb have been studied using the total absorption spectroscopy technique. The radioactive nuclei were produced at the IGISOL facility in Jyv\"askyl\"a and further purified using the JYFLTRAP. $^{86}$Br and $^{91}$Rb are considered to be major contributors to the decay heat in reactors. In addition $^{91}$Rb was used as a normalization point in direct measurements of mean gamma energies released in the beta decay of fission products by Rudstam {\it et al.} assuming that this decay was well known from high-resolution measurements. Our results show that both decays were suffering from the {\it Pandemonium} effect and that the results of Rudstam {\it et al.} should be renormalized. The relative impact of the studied decays in the prediction of the decay heat and antineutrino spectrum from reactors has been evaluated.

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