# Study of radioactivity built-up and decay with singles time-stamped data

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how time-stamped gamma-ray data can accurately measure radioactive half-lives, especially useful for nuclei with half-lives that are challenging to measure with traditional methods.

## Contribution

It introduces a method using time-stamped data to determine half-lives of nuclei, bridging the gap between in-beam and off-beam measurement techniques.

## Key findings

- Half-lives from parent decay and daughter growth match well.
- Time-stamped data effective for intermediate half-life measurements.
- Method useful for beam monitoring and tuning.

## Abstract

Time-stamped data have been used to estimate the decay half-lives of radioactive 118mSb and 64,66,68Ga nuclei. These nuclei are populated through the reaction 4He (Elab = 32 MeV) + nat In and p (Elab = 10 MeV) + natZn, respectively. The g -rays emitted by the excited daughter nuclei are detected by a single high purity germanium (HPGe) detector and the data are acquired using a CAEN 5780M desktop digitizer. Half-lives of different orders of magnitudes for the above mentioned nuclei are obtained from both the decay of parent and the growth of daughter nuclei. It is observed that the half-lives obtained from both these techniques match fairly well and also are consistent with the reported values. It is demonstrated that the time-stamped data can be useful while studying certain half-lives which are too long for measurement using in-beam electronic technique and too short for decay studies in off-beam methods. The data also have a special relevance for constant monitoring of beam current and beam-tuning.