Published August 1, 2007
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Conversion of electron spectrum associated with fission into the antineutrino spectrum
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Vogel, Petr
Abstract
The accuracy of the procedure that converts the experimentally determined electron spectrum associated with fission of the nuclear fuels 235U, 239Pu, 241Pu, and 238U into the antineutrino [overline nu ]e spectrum is examined. By using calculated sets of mutually consistent spectra, this work shows that the conversion procedure can result in a small ~1% error provided several conditions are met. Chief among them are the requirements that the average nuclear charge as a function of the beta-decay endpoint energy is independently known and that the [overline nu ]e spectrum is binned into bins that are several times larger than the width of the slices used to fit the electron spectrum.
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©2007 The American Physical Society (Received 1 June 2007; published 28 August 2007) The author deeply appreciates the hospitality of Prof. Cristina Volpe and the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, where part of this research was performed. The work reported here was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-FG02-05ER41361.Files
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