General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DAM-25-0528
Direction
DAM
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Study of radiative decay of the nucleus using a technic like Oslo-method
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Radiative neutron capture is a nuclear reaction forming a compound nucleus which decays by emitting gamma-rays at excitation energy around the neutron binding energy. This well-known reaction which we known how to accurately measure its cross section at low incident neutron energies for most stable and few unstable nuclei close the stability valley, remains difficult to measure for exotic nuclei like fission fragments. Nuclear reaction models based essentially on stable nuclei, also struggle to provide reliable predictions of cross sections for these exotic nuclei. However, in the recent years, progress made related to the models and the measurements for the radiative capture show that significant improvements in including microscopic ingredients studies. These micoscopic ingredients: gamma strength function and nuclear level density, remain accesible to the experiment. These ingredients which respectively manage the way of how the gamma cascade occurs and the nuclear structure at high excitation energy can also be measured and calculated to be compared and suggest ways to improve the predictability of models. This kind of improvements have a direct impact for instance on the cross sections for these exotic nuclei which are produced in the stellar nucleosynthesis. The subject of thie thesis is to measure these quantities for a nucleus involved in the nucleosythesis using a new setup called SFyNCS.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
DAM Île-de-France
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Fougères Chloé
chloe.fougeres@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DPTA//DPTA
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères-le-Châtel
91297 ARPAJON Cedex
0169264000
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
ROIG Olivier
olivier.roig@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DPTA//DPTA
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères-le-Châtel
91297 ARPAJON Cedex
0169264000
En savoir plus
https://www-lmce.cea.fr/
https://www-dam.cea.fr/