Publications
Refereed Journals
1)
Excitation function of
the nuclear reaction 19F(p,ag)16O
in the proton energy range 0.3-3.0 MeV.
S. Dababneh, K. Toukan and I.
Khubeis.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research B
83 (1993) 319-324.
2)
Characterization of
Lead, Mercury and Gold Implanted into Magnesium.
K. Toukan, S.
Dababneh, R. AbdelKarim and I. Khubeis.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 143 (1997)
167-178.
3)
Diffusion Behaviour of
Gold and Mercury Implanted into Magnesium.
K. Toukan, I. Khubeis,
F. Al-Zubi, M. Al-Sa’adi, S. Dababneh, E. Bakraji and O. Meyer.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research B
127/128 (1997) 747-751.
4)
Radiological Safety of
Food Irradiation with High Energy X-rays: Theoretical Expectations and
Experimental Evidence.
O. Grégoire, M.R. Cleland, J. Mittendorfer, S. Dababneh, D.A.E.
Ehlermann, X. Fan, F. Käppeler, J. Logar, J. Meissner, B. Mullier, F.
Stichelbaut, D.W. Thayer.
Radiat. Phys. Chem. 67 (2003) 169-183.
5)
Erratum to
“Radiological Safety of Medical Devices Sterilized with X-rays at 7.5 MeV.”
[Radiat. Phys. Chem. 67 (2003) 149-167]
O. Grégoire, M.R. Cleland, J.
Mittendorfer, M. Vander Donckt, J. Meissner, S. Dababneh, F. Käppeler,
D.A.E. Ehlermann.
Radiat. Phys. Chem. 68 (2003) 943.
6)
Nucleosynthesis in
TP-AGB Stars and the Production of 19F.
J. Görres, S. Dababneh, A. Couture, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, H. Leiste, M.
Lugaro, C. Ugalde and M. Wiescher
Nucl. Phys. A
718 (2003) 155c-158c.
7)
Stellar He burning of 18O:
A measurement of low-energy resonances and their astrophysical implications.
S. Dababneh,
M. Heil, F. Käppeler, J. Görres, M.
Wiescher, R. Reifarth and H. Leiste
Phys. Rev. C 68 (2003) 025801.
8)
Neutron capture cross
section of 139La.
S. O'Brien,
S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Plag, R. Reifarth, R. Gallino and M.
Pignatari
Phys. Rev. C
68 (2003) 035801.
9)
Relationship between
hyperdeformation, fission resonances and clustering in 233Th.
Nenoff N., Beer H., Bringel P., Chmel S., Csatlós M.,
Dababneh S., Heil M., Hübel H., Kappeler F., Krasznahorkay A., Mergel E.,
Plag R., Reifarth R.
Acta Physica Hungarica New Series - Heavy Ion Physics 18 (2003) 331.
10) Gamma spectroscopy using two Clover detectors in close
geometry.
S. Dababneh,
N. Patronis, P.A. Assimakopoulos, J. Görres, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, D.
Karamanis, S. O'Brien, R. Reifarth.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
517 (2004) 230-239.
11) Neutron capture studies on unstable 135Cs for
nucleosynthesis and transmutation.
N. Patronis, S. Dababneh, P.A. Assimakopoulos, R.
Gallino, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, D. Karamanis, P.E. Koehler, A. Mengoni and
R. Plag.
Phys. Rev. C 69 (2004) 025803.
12) New experimental validation of the pulse height weighting
technique for capture cross-section measurements.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research A 521 (2004) 454-467.
13) Production and isobaric separation of 63Ni ions
for determination of the 62Ni(n,γ)63Ni reaction
cross section at stellar temperatures
H. Nassar, S.
Ghelberg, M. Paul, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Plag,
I. Ahmad,
J.P. Greene, D.J. Henderson, C.L. Jiang, R.C. Pardo, T. Pennington,
K.E. Rehm, R.
Scott, S. Sinha, X. Tang, R. Vondrasek, H. Koivisto, D. Berkovits,
M. Bettan, R. Reifarth, P. Collon, S. O’Brien and N.
Patronis
Nucl. Phys. A 746 (2004) 613c–616c.
14) Stellar (n,g) cross section of 62Ni.
H. Nassar, M. Paul, I. Ahmad, D. Berkovits, M. Bettan,
P. Collon, S. Dababneh, S. Ghelberg, J.P. Greene, A. Heger, M. Heil, D.J.
Henderson, C.L. Jiang, F. Käppeler, H. Koivisto, S. O'Brien, R.C. Pardo, N.
Patronis, T. Pennington, R. Plag, K.E. Rehm, R. Reifarth, R. Scott, S.
Sinha, X. Tang, R. Vondrasek.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 092504.
15) Measurement of the n_TOF beam profile with a micromegas
detector.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
524 (2004) 102-114.
16) Time–energy relation of the n_TOF neutron beam: energy
standards revisited.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
532 (2004) 622-630.
17) A Low-Mass Neutron Flux Monitor for the n_TOF Facility at
CERN.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Brazilian Journal of Physics 34 (2004) 914-918.
18) Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurement of 151Sm
at the CERN Neutron Time of Flight Facility (n_TOF).
The n_TOF collaboration.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 161103.
19) The data acquisition system of the neutron time of flight
facility n_TOF at CERN.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
538 (2005) 692-702.
20) A neutron source to measure stellar neutron capture cross
sections at kT = 5 keV.
M. Heil, S. Dababneh, F. Käppeler, R. Plag, A.
Juseviciute, N. Winckler, R. Reifarth, and S. O’Brien.
Nucl. Phys. A
758 (2005) 529-532.
21) Stellar neutron capture rates of 14C
R. Reifarth, M. Heil, R. Plag, U. Besserer, S. Dababneh,
L. Dörr, J. Görres, R.C. Haight, F. Käppeler, A. Mengoni, S. O’Brien, N.
Patronis, R.S. Rundgerg, M. Wiescher, J.B. Wilhelmy.
Nucl. Phys. A
758 (2005) 787-790.
22) Measurement of the 151Sm(n,g)152Sm
cross section at n_TOF.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nucl. Phys. A
758 (2005) 533-536.
23) Measurements of the 90,91,92,94,96Zr(n,g)
cross sections at n_TOF.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nucl. Phys. A 758 (2005) 573-576.
24) Neutron capture cross section measurements for nuclear
astrophysics at CERN n_TOF.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Nucl. Phys. A
758 (2005) 501-504.
25) Quasistellar spectrum for neutron activation measurements at
kT = 5 keV.
M. Heil, S. Dababneh, A. Juseviciute, F. Käppeler, R.
Plag, R. Reifarth, S. O’Brien.
Phys. Rev. C 71 (2005) 025803.
26) Measurement of the 151Sm(n,γ) cross section
from 0.6 eV to 1 MeV via the neutron time-of-flight technique at the CERN
n_TOF facility.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Phys. Rev. C 73 (2006) 034604.
27) A new approach to the 176Lu puzzle.
F. Käppeler, N. Winckler, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, S.
Bisterzo, and R. Gallino.
Memorie della
Società Astronomica Italiana 77 (2006) n. 3.
28) Lanthanum: an s- and r-process indicator.
N. Winckler, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R.
Gallino, M. Pignatari.
The Astrophysical Journal 647 (2006) 685.
29) Stellar (n,γ) cross sections of 174Hf and
radioactive 182Hf.
C. Vockenhuber, I. Dillmann, M. Heil, F. Käppeler , N. Winckler, W. Kutschera, A. Wallner, M.
Bichler, S. Dababneh, S. Bisterzo, R. Gallino.
Phys. Rev. C 75 (2007) 015804.
30) Indication for hyperdeformed cluster states in 233Th.
N. Nenoff, P.
Bringel, A. Bürger, S.Chmel, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, H. Hübel, F. Käppeler,
A. Neußer-Neffgen, R. Plag.
European Physical Journal A 32, (2007) 165.
31) 176Lu/176Hf: A sensitive test of s-process
temperature and neutron density in AGB stars.
M. Heil, N. Winckler, S. Dababneh, F. Käppeler, K. Wisshak, S. Bisterzo, R. Gallino, A.M. Davis, T. Rauscher.
The Astrophysical Journal 673 (2008) 434.
32) The 14C(n,g) cross section
between 10 keV and 1 MeV.
R. Reifarth, M. Heil, C. Forssén, U. Besserer, A.
Couture, S. Dababneh, L. Dörr, J. Görres,
R.C. Haight, F. Käppeler,
A. Mengoni, S. O'Brien, N. Patronis, R. Plag, R.S. Rundberg, M.
Wiescher and J.B. Wilhelmy.
Phys. Rev. C 77 (2008) 015804.
33) A solution of the neutron diffusion equation in
hemispherical symmetry using the homotopy perturbation method.
Kafa Khasawneh, Saed Dababneh, Zaid Odibat.
Annals of Nuclear Energy 36 (2009) 1711.
34) Stellar (n,γ) cross sections of p-process
isotopes Part I: 102Pd, 120Te, 130,132Ba,
and 156Dy.
I. Dillmann, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, S. Walter, S.
Dababneh, T. Rauscher and F.-K. Thielemann.
Phys. Rev. C 81 (2010) 015801.
35) An
alternative solution of the neutron diffusion equation in cylindrical
symmetry.
Saed Dababneh, Kafa Khasawneh, Zaid Odibat.
Annals of Nuclear Energy 38 (2011) 1140.
Conference
Proceedings and Abstracts
36) Studies of the nuclear reaction 19F(p,ag)16O
in the proton energy range 0.3-3.0 MeV.
S.O.F. Dababneh, F. Taffal, F.M. Safi, K. Toukan, H.
Fakhoury and I. Khubeis.
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on
Nuclear Astrophysics,
Karlsruhe,
Germany,
6-10 July (1992).
Edited by F. Käppeler and K. Wisshak. Bristol:
IOP Publishing (1993) p. 155-160.
37) Angular distribution and yield studies of the 19F(p,ao)16O
and 7Li(p,a)4He nuclear
reactions in the proton energy range 0.3-3.0 MeV.
F. Safi, F. Taffal, K. Toukan, S.O.F. Dababneh, H.
Fakhoury and I. Khubeis.
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on
Nuclear Astrophysics,
Karlsruhe,
Germany,
6-10 July (1992).
Edited by F. Käppeler and K. Wisshak. Bristol:
IOP Publishing (1993) p. 161-168.
38) a-capture
on 18O and its astrophysical implications.
J. Görres, M.
Wiescher, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, R. Reifarth and F. Käppeler.
1st Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the
American Physical Society and the Japanese Physical Society, Wailea, Maui,
Hawaii, October 17-20, 2001.
39) Reaction rates for helium burning.
J. Görres, S.
Dababneh, C. Ugalde, F. Käppeler and M. Wiescher
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on "Nuclear
Astrophysics", Ringberg Castle,
Tegernsee, Germany,
February 11-16, 2002.
Wolfgang
Hillebrandt and Ewald Müller (Eds.). MPA/P13, Garching b. München, Germany:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, 2002, p.75–78.
40) The 18O(a,g)
rate during stellar He burning.
S. Dababneh,
J. Görres, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Reifarth and M. Wiescher
Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Münster,
Germany,
March 11-15 2002.
41) Relationship between hyperdeformation, fission resonances
and clustering in 233Th.
N. Nenoff, H. Beer, P. Bringel, S. Chmel, M. Csatlos, S.
Dababneh, M. Heil, H. Hübel, F. Käppeler, A. Krasznahorkay, E. Mergel, R.
Plag and R. Reifarth.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Nuclear Clusters, Scloss
Rauischholzhausen, August 5-9, 2002.
42) Neutron capture measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility for
ADS applications.
The n_TOF collaboration.
Eleventh International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray
Spectroscopy and Related Topics.
Prague, Czech
Republic, September 2 - 6, 2002.
43) The 135Cs(n,g) cross section at 30
and 500 keV.
N. Patronis, P.A. Assimakopoulos, D. Karamanis, F.
Käppeler, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, R. Plag and P.E. Koehler.
n_TOF Winter
School on
Astrophysics, ADS, and First Results. Les
Houches, France, February
24-28 2003.
44) The (n,g) cross section of 139La
at 30 keV.
S. Dababneh, S. O'Brien, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Plag and R.
Reifarth.
n_TOF Winter
School on
Astrophysics, ADS, and First Results. Les
Houches, France, February
24-28 2003.
45) The 135Cs(n,g) cross section at 30,
200 and 500 keV.
S. Dababneh, P.A. Assimakopoulos, S. Harisopoulos,
M. Heil, F. Käppeler, D. Karamanis, N. Patronis and R. Plag.
Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Tübingen,
Germany,
March 17-21 2003.
46) Production and isobaric separation of 63Ni ions
for determination of the 62Ni(n,γ)63Ni reaction
cross section at stellar temperatures.
H. Nasar, M. Paul, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R.
Plag, I. Ahmad, J.P. Greene,
D.J. Henderson, C.L. Jiang, R.C. Pardo, T. Pennington,
K.E. Rehm, R. Scott, R. Vondrasek, H. Koivisto, S. O'Brien, N. Patronis, R.
Reifarth.
6th International Conference on Radioactive
Nuclear Beams (RNB6), Argonne,
Ill., USA,
September 22-26 2003.
47) Stellar
He burning of 18O.
S. Dababneh,
M. Heil, F. Käppeler, J. Görres, M. Wiescher, R. Reifarth, H. Leiste.
2003 Fall Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Division of the
American Physical Society, Tucson,
Arizona, USA.
October 30 – November 01, 2003.
48) The (n,g) cross section of 135Cs.
The n_TOF collaboration meeting. Vienna
University of Technology,
Vienna, Austria.
December 11-12, 2003.
49) A neutron source for activation measurements in a stellar
spectrum at kT=8 keV.
M. Heil, S.
Dababneh, F. Käppeler, S. O'Brien, R. Plag and R. Reifarth.
Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Köln, Germany,
March 8-12 2004.
50) A neutron source for activation measurements in a stellar
spectrum at kT=8 keV.
M. Heil, S.
Dababneh, F. Käppeler, S. O'Brien, R. Plag and R. Reifarth.
12th Workshop on "Nuclear
Astrophysics", Ringberg Castle
at Lake Tegernsee,
March 22-27 2004.
51) A neutron source for activation measurements in a stellar
spectrum at kT=5 keV.
Michael Heil,
Saed Dababneh, Franz Käppeler, Shawn O'Brien, Ralf Plag, Rene Reifarth
International Conference for Nuclear Data in Science and
Technology, organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA, Sep. 26 – Oct. 1, 2004.
52) Measurements of neutron capture cross-sections at n_TOF.
The n_TOF
collaboration
In: 6th
Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Iguazu,
Argentina,
3-7 Oct 2005.
Published in:
AIP Conf. Proc. 884 (2007), pp.265-271.
53) A new approach to the 176Lu puzzle.
F. Käppeler, N. Winckler, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, S.
Bisterzo, and R. Gallino.
VIII Torino
workshop on nucleosynthesis in AGB stars, Granada, Februrary 6-10, 2006.
Published in: Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, Vol. 77 n. 3,
2006.
Editors: Carlos
Abia and Imma Domínguez.
54) Neutron studies on hafnium: s abundances and r
residuals.
Franz
Käppeler, Saed Dababneh, Iris Dillmann, Michael Heil, Friedrich Voss,
Nicolas Winckler, Klaus Wisshak, Christoph Vockenhuber, Walter Kutschera,
Anton Wallner,
Max Bichler,
Leonid Kazakov, Frantisek Becvar, Milan Krticka, Roberto Gallino, and Marco
Pignatari.
Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Munich,
Germany,
20-24/3/2006.
55) Measurement of the stellar (n,g) cross section of 182Hf.
C.
Vockenhuber, I. Dillmann, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, N. Winckler, W. Kutschera,
A. Wallner, M. Bichler, S. Dababneh, R. Gallino and S.
Bisterzo.
Nuclei in the Cosmos IX, CERN, Geneva,
Switzerland,
25-30 June, 2006.
56) Measurement of the partial (n,g) cross section to 176Lum
at s process temperatures.
N. Winckler,
S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, S. Bisterzo and R. Gallino.
Nuclei in the Cosmos IX, CERN, Geneva,
Switzerland,
25-30 June, 2006.
Published in: Proceedings of Science. PoS (NIC-IX) 192.
57) Direct measurement of stellar neutron capture rates of 14C
and comparison with the Coulomb breakup method.
R. Reifarth,
M. Heil, R. Plag, U. Besserer, A. Couture, S. Dababneh, L. Dörr, C.
Forssén, J. Görres, R. Haight, A. Mengoni, S. O’Brien, N. Patronis, R.
Rundberg, E. Uberseder, M.
Wiescher, J. Wilhelmy.
Nuclei in the Cosmos IX, CERN, Geneva,
Switzerland,
25-30 June, 2006.
Published in: Proceedings of Science. PoS (NIC-IX) 223.
58) Solving neutron diffusion equations for different geometries
using the homotopy perturbation method.
Kafa
Khasawneh, Saed Dababneh, Zaid Odibat.
The second
international symposium on nuclear energy ISNE-09, Amman, Jordan, 26-28
October, 2009.
59) Characterization of biological matrices using X-ray Compton
scattering technique.
Hanan
Saleh, Saed Dababneh, Jamal Sharaf, Shada Ramahi.
The second
international symposium on nuclear energy ISNE-09, Amman, Jordan, 26-28
October, 2009.
60) Evaluation of scatter dose contribution of 192Ir
in brachytherapy by Monte Carlo simulation.
Eshraq
Ababneh, Saed Dababneh, Sharif Qatarneh, Shada Ramahi.
The second
international symposium on nuclear energy ISNE-09, Amman, Jordan, 26-28
October, 2009.
61) The calibration of In-Situ gamma-ray
spectrometers: A comparative study of different approaches.
Ahmad
Al-Qararah, Saed Dababneh, Ibrahim F. Al-Hamarneh.
The second
international symposium on nuclear energy ISNE-09, Amman, Jordan, 26-28
October, 2009.
62) Bragg-Curve Measurement and Simulation of Heavy-Ion Beams
for Hadron Therapy Applications.
Morad K.
Hamad, Saed Dababneh, Shada Wadi-Ramahi, Majd Hawari, Marco Durante.
The third international symposium
on nuclear energy ISNE-10, Amman, Jordan, 15-17 December, 2010.
63) Alternative Solutions to Neutron Diffusion Problems in
Different Geometries.
Kafa
Khasawneh, Saed Dababneh, Zaid Odibat.
The third international symposium
on nuclear energy ISNE-10, Amman, Jordan, 15-17 December, 2010.
Reports and
Proposals
64) Reports on the measurements of radionuclide activities in
soil samples in Jordan.
K. Toukan, S.
Dababneh, J. Sharaf and I. Khubeis.
Amman, Jordan. 1995-1999.
65) Laboratory studies of stellar neutron reactions.
H. Beer, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler,
R. Plag, W. Rapp, R. Reifarth, F. Voss, K. Wisshak.
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Nachrichten, Jahrgang 33-2/2001, p.189.
66) Study of the Background in the Measuring Station at the
n_TOF Facility at CERN: Sources and Solutions.
The n_TOF collaboration.
SL/Note 2001-046, CERN/INTC 2001-038, INTC-O-007
CERN, 10 December 2001.
67) A Detailed Study of the Hyperdeformed States of Uranium in
the 234U(n,f) Reaction.
The n_TOF collaboration.
CERN?INTC 2002-022, INTC/P145 Add. 1,
CERN, 11 April 2002.
68) Neutron Capture Cross Section of Zr and La: Probing Neutron
Exposure and Neutron Flux in Red Giant Stars.
Proposal to the INTC Committee.
The n_TOF collaboration.
CERN?INTC
CERN, September 2002.
69) Alpha capture on 18O during stellar He burning.
Saed
Dababneh.
Wissenschaftliche
Berichte FZKA 6782, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (2002).
70) Measurements of Fission Cross Sections of Actinides.
Proposal to the ISOLDE and Neutron time-of-flight
Experiments Committee.
The n_TOF collaboration.
CERN/INTC 2003-021, INTC/P-177.
CERN, April 2003.
71) CERN n_TOF Facility: Performance Report.
The n_TOF collaboration.
CERN-SL-2002-053 ECT.
Geneva,
31 January, 2003.
72) Notre Dame Clover Detector(s): GEANT4 Monte
Carlo Simulations.
A report prepared for the Nuclear Structure Laboratory
at the University of Notre Dame and the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Astrophysics, USA.
Amman,
31 March, 2005.
73) The Qafqafa, Tafileh and Karama Monitoring Stations: Status
and Recommendations.
A report presented to the board of Jordan Atomic Energy
Commission.
September 4th, 2005.
74) Dissi Water Quality Assessment (Radiological Aspects).
A report presented to the Ministry of Water and
Irrigation, Amman, Jordan.
December 11th, 2006.
75) Draft Proposal for the establishment of a Center
of Excellence in
Nuclear Science and Technology.
Saed Dababneh, Khaled Toukan, Omar Rimawi, Munir
Dababneh, Dia-Eddin Arafah, Rami Ali, Jamal Sharaf, Ibrahim Hamarneh,
Mohammed Awadallah, Mousa Imran, Eyad Abu Nameh, Nabil Ayoub and Omar
Al-Khashman.
Submitted to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Foundation.
June 1st, 2007.
76) Assessment report on the available data concerning uranium mining
in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Saed Dababneh.
August 29th, 2009.
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