Jesse L. Weil

Jesse Weil

Personal data

Name: Jesse Leo Weil, PhD
Nationality: United States
Name of employer: Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Isotopes
Position: Scientific advisor

Contacts
E-mail: weil@iki.kfki.hu
Phone: +36-1-392-2222 Ext. 2538
+36-1-392-2539

Fax:

 +36-1-392-2584
Postal address: Department of Nuclear Research, Institute of Isotopes, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 77., HUNGARY
Street address: KFKI Campus, 29-33 Konkoly-Thege Miklós street, Budapest, Hungary. Building XVII/A, Room 207.

Education

1952 B.Sc., Physics, Caltech
1956 Ph.D., Experimental Nuclear Physics, Columbia

Research interests

My major experimental work at this time is the investigation of the neutron capture cross section and the level structure of 99Tc, a long-lived radioactive waste product from reactors. Besides the basic physics interests, it's capture cross section is needed to plan how to burn it up in some future waste disposal facility. I'm using neutron capture measurements at the KFKI reactor in Budapest, as well as particle transfer experiments in Munich to get the needed information. I continue to have an interest in the level structure of the even-A tin isotopes 116,120,124Sn and in the buildup of light elements for nuclear astrophysics.

Recent Papers

  1. "Strongly enhanced low energy alpha-particle decay in heavy actinide nuclei and long-lived superdeformed and hyperdeformed isomeric states", A. Marinov, S. Gelberg, D. Kolb, and J.L. Weil, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E10, 209, (2001).
  2. "Low-lying, excited K = 0 bands on 238U" Z. Gacsi, ...., J. L.Weil, and J. van Klinken, Phys. Rev. C64, 047303 (2001).
  3. "Coincidence measurement setup for PGAA and nuclear structure studies", P.P.Ember, T. Belgya, J.L. Weil, and G.L. Molnar, Appl. Radiation and Isotopes 57, 573 (2002).
  4. "The cold neutron PGAA-NIPS facility at the Budapest Research Reactor", T. Belgya, Zs. Revay, P.P. Ember, J. Weil, G.L. Molnar and S.M. Qaim, CGS-11 Conference, Pruhonice near Prague, Czech Republic, (2002); World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, p. 562, (2003).
  5. "Cold neutron PGAA facility at Budapest", Zs. Revay, T. Belgya, Zs. Kasztovsky, J.L. Weil, G.L. Molnar, Nucl. Inst. Meth. B 213, 385 (2004).
  6. "Thermal neutron capture cross section measurements of 99Tc at the Budapest PGAA-NIPS facility", T. Belgya, J. Weil, G.L. Molnar, and H.-F. Wirth; Workshop on Neutron Measurement and Evaluation for Applications (NEMEA) Proc., Budapest (2003), EUR Report 21100 EN, p. 159, ISBN 92-894-6041-5, (2004).
  7. "A practical test of a gamma-gamma coincidence measurement setup for PGAA", P.P. Ember, T. Belgya, J.L. Weil, and G.L. Molnar; Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Physics Research, B213, 406 (2004).
  8. "Determination of thermal neutron capture cross sections using cold neutron beams", T. Belgya, G.L. Molnar, Zs. Revay and J. Weil, in 10th Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Sept. 26 - Oct. 1, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico: AIP, (2005) pp. 744-747.
  9. "Three-phonon excitations in 124Sn", D. Bandyopadhyay, N. Warr, C. Fransen, S. W. Yates, J.L. Weil, and M.T. McEllistrem, Nucl. Phys. A747, 206 (2005).
  10. "New determination of the 12C(α, γ)16O reaction rate from gamma-ray angular distribution measurements", J.W. Hammer, M. Fey, ... J.L. Weil,..., and S. Szilner; Nucl. Phys. A752, 514C (2005).
  11. "E1 and E2 capture cross section and astrophysical reaction rate of the key reaction 12C(α, γ)16O"; J.W. Hammer, M. Fey, ... J.L. Weil...and S. Szilner; Nucl. Phys. A758, 363C (2005).
  12. "E1 and E2 S factors of 12C(α, γ)16O from gamma-ray angular distributions with a 4-pi detector array", M. Assuncao, M. Fey ... and J.L. Weil, Phys. Rev. C73, 055801 (2006)
  13. "99Tc(n,γ)100Tc cross section, 99Tc(d,p)100Tc and the 100Tc decay scheme and neutron binding energy", J. L. Weil, T. Belgya, and H.-F. Wirth, 11th Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Nice, France, 2007: EDP Sciences, pp. 611-614 (2008)