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SUMMARY:A Measurement of Zinc-65 Using Data from the KDK Experiment
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lilianna Hariasz (Queen's University)\nZinc-65 (Zn-6
 5) is a radionuclide of interest in the fields of medicine and gamma-ray s
 pectroscopy\, within which its continued use as a tracer and common calibr
 ation source necessitates increasingly-precise nuclear decay data. A Zn-65
  dataset was obtained as part of the KDK ("potassium decay") experiment\, 
 whose apparatus consists of an inner X-ray detector and an efficient  oute
 r detector\, the  Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer (MTAS)\, to tag ga
 mma rays. This setup allows for the discrimination of the electron capture
  decays of Zn-65 to the ground (EC) and excited (EC*) states of Copper-65 
 (Cu-65) using an emerging technique for such a measurement\, exploiting th
 e high efficiency ($\\sim$98%) of MTAS. Techniques used to obtain the rati
 o of EC to EC* decays are applicable to the main KDK analysis\, which is m
 aking the first such measurement for Potassium-40\, a common background in
  rare-event searches such as those for dark matter. We present our current
  methodology and analysis procedures developed to obtain a novel measureme
 nt of the electron-capture decays of Zinc-65.\n\nhttps://nyx.physics.mcgil
 l.ca/event/253/contributions/1765/
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting
URL:https://nyx.physics.mcgill.ca/event/253/contributions/1765/
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