Uncertainties of nucleo-chronometers from nuclear physics inputs

Zhang Wei-Hong; Niu Zhong-Ming; Wang Feng; Gong Xiao-Bo; Sun Bao-Hua

doi:10.7498/aps.61.112601

Abstract

The influences of uncertainties in nuclear physics inputs on the Th/U, Th/Hf, Th/Eu, Th/Os, Th/Ir nucleo-chronometers are investigated in the framework of the classical r-process approach. A Monte-Carlo method is used to evaluate the age uncertainty originating from neutron separation energies for each nuclear mass model. It is found that the deduced age uncertainty for Th /U can be up to 1.66 Ga, and for the three chronometers, Th/Eu, Th/Os, Th/Ir, the uncertainties are 5.15 Ga, 3.93 Ga and 3.95 Ga, respectively. The recently proposed chronometer, Th/Hf, shows a clear model dependence, while Th/Os and Th/Ir chronometers tend to overestimate the age of Universe. Taking into account the uncertainties in nuclear physics inputs and observations, an up-to-date age estimation for the universe with the Th/U chronometer is 14.1? 3.8 Ga.

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Authors and contacts

1.
State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
2.
Department of Physics, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China
Funds: Project supported by the Student Research Training Program of Beihang University, China, the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, China (Grant No. SKLSDE-2011ZX-18), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. NCET-09-0031), the 211 Project of Anhui University, China (Grant No. 02303319), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10975008, 11105010, 11035007, 11128510).

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