About BrIcc
Contact us
To contact us regarding the BrIcc software pelase email bricc@anu.edu.au
Authors
| T. Kibédi | Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (ANU) |
| T.W. Burrows | National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973-5000, U.S.A. (NNDC), |
| M.B. Trzhaskovskaya | Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia 188300 (Petersburg) |
| P.M. Davidson | Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (ANU) |
| C.W. Nestor, Jr. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, U.S.A. (ORNL) |
Data tables
- BrIccFO (default & recommended) - 'Frozen Orbitals' approximation to take into account the effect of the hole.
- BrIccNH - 'No Hole' approximation which ignores the effect of the hole.
- HsIcc - Hager-Seltzer and Dragoun et al. tables.
- RpIcc - Rösel et al. tables.
BrIccFO & BrIccNH data sets | |||||
| Data Table | Reference | Z | Shells or IPF | L | Transition energy [keV]a |
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| Internal Conversion Coefficient (ICC) | |||||
| BrIccFO | Based on the model using the 'Frozen Orbitals' approximation of 2002Ba85 and 2002Ra45 | 5–110 | All shells | 1–5 | εic+1–6000 |
| BrIccNH | Based on the model using the 'No Hole' approximation of 2002Ba85 and 2002Ra45 | 5–110 | All shells | 1–5 | εic+1–6000 |
| Pair Conversion Coefficient (PCC) | |||||
| ScPcc | 1979Sc31 | 0–100b | IPF | 1–3 | 1100–8000 |
| HoPcc | 1996Ho21 | 50–100 | IPF | 1–3 | 1100–8000 |
| Electronic factor Ω(E0)c | |||||
| HsOmg | 1969Ha61 | 30–42 | Kd,L1e,L2f | 0 | εic+6–1500 |
| BeOmg | 1970Be87 | 40–102 | K | 0 | 51f–2555 |
| 40–102 | L1,L2 | 0 | 51–2555 | ||
| PaOmg | 1986PaZM | 8–40 | Ke | 0 | 511–12775 |
| 8–40 | IPF | 0 | 1431–12775 | ||
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a εic is the binding energy for the ic-shell
b Used for Z < 50
c Electronic factors are only calculated for even Z values at present
d Not used
e Used for Z < 40
f For Z=40–58: 51.1 keV;
for Z=60–82: 102.2 keV;
for Z=84–96: 153.3 keV and
for Z=98–102: 204.4 keV
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HsIcc data set | |||||
| Data Table | Reference | Z | Shells | L | Transition energy [keV] a |
| Internal Conversion Coefficient (ICC) i | |||||
| HsIcc | Based on the Hager and Seltzer 1968Ha53 and Dragoun et al. 1971Dr11 tables | 30–103 | K, L, M and N+ shellsg |
1–4 | εic+1–1500h |
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g For K-, L-, and M-shells: Z=30–103; for N+ shell Z=37–100
h For K-shell: εic+1 – 1500(1650) keV;
for L-shell: εic+1 – 1000(1550) keV;
for M-shell: εic+1 – 150(510) keV;
for N+ shell: 50 – 500 keV | |||||
RpIcc data set | |||||
| Data Table | Reference | Z | Shells | L | Transition energy [keV]a |
| Internal Conversion Coefficient (ICC) | |||||
| RpIcc | Based on the Rösel et al. 1978Ro21 and 1978Ro22 tables | 30–104 | All shells | 1–4 | εic+2–3000h |
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h For K-shell: εic+2 – 3000(5000) keV;
for L-shell: εic+2 – 1500 keV;
for M-, N-, O-, P- and Q-shells: εic+2 – 500(1500) keV
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Version history
| Version | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | 15-Nov-2003 | Project initiated at the NSDD coordination meeting (Vienna) |
| 1.0 | 6-Apr-2004 | Tabulations using the 'No Hole' approximation completed for εic+1–6000 keV energies and Z=10–95 atomic numbers. |
| 1.1 | 31-Aug-2004 | In house (ANU) testing of the first version of the program completed. |
| 1.2 | 24-Sep-2004 | Bechmark testing (NNDC) of the first version of BrIcc completed. |
| 1.3 | 19-Nov-2004 | ANU web interface created. |
| 1.3 | 20-Dec-2004 | BrIcc relesed for ENSDF evaluators. |
| 6-Jun-2005 | NSDD coordination meeting ( McMaster) adopted the 'Frozen Orbitals' approximation. | |
| 2.0 | 1-Sep-2005 | Tabulations using the 'Frozen Orbitals' approximation completed. BrIcc program logic, exception and error handling improved. |
| 2.1 | 1-Oct-2005 | BrIccS ('slave') version developed and the new ANU web interface created. |
| 2.0a | 19-Dec-2005 | Corrected a bug in the BrIcc MERGE operation. |
| 2.0b | 12-Jan-2006 | Corrected a bug in the BrIcc MERGE operation. |
| 2.1 | 28-Feb-2007 | User selectable data tables, including BrIccFO, BrIccNH, HsIcc and RpIcc were added to the ANU web interface. |
| 27-Apr-2007 | The Decay Data Evaluation Project (DDEP) has adopted BrIcc and the 'Fozen Orbitals' approximation. | |
| 2.2 | 4-Jan-2008 | The BrIccFO and the BrIccNH data tables have been recalculated for several chemical elements (see Table B1 of the NIM paper) and the range of the tables have been extended for Z=5–110. |
| 02-Apr-2008 | BrIcc relesed for ENSDF evaluators. | |
| 2.2a | 13-Jul-2008 | The lowest tabulated point in the BrIccFO and the BrIccNH data tables for Z=88, 98, 100, 101 and 102 K-shell was 2 keV above the the binding energies. |
| 27-Nov-2008 | Minor bug in the Slave version fixed. For for pure and mixed ICC`s and for transition energy within 1 keV to the binding energy incorrect XML code was returned. | |
| 2.2b | 20-Jan-2009 | For Z=34 incorrect ΩIPF(E0) values were used for the PaOmg data table. |
| 2.3G | 16-Apr-2010 | The BrIcc Grapher application released. The web interface was developed by Dimitrios Tsifakis (ANU Nuclear Physics). We acknowledge the help of the Eurazn team (D. Zezlej-Supic, L. Pham, L. Troung, L. Tran, T. Sun and T. Winsnes) from the University of Canberra in developing the first version of the BrIcc Grapher. |
| 2.3S and 2.3G | 29-Mar-2011 | Double precision arithmetic implemented to avoid possible over/underflows. |
| 2.3 | 09-Dec-2011 | New δ values have been adopted for cases when the mixing ratio is not known. BrIcc and related programs now supported on MacOS. |
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