Isotopic effect in the width of a giant dipole resonance in light nuclei

An isotopic effect in the widths of giant dipole resonances is established on the basis of an analysis of the latest systematics of photoabsorption cross sections for nuclei containing 12 to 65 nucleons. This effect arises owing to isospin splitting of a giant resonance and is enhanced by its configuration splitting.     

Effect of nuclear-surface diffuseness on the energy and width of the giant dipole resonance

The effect of nuclear-surface diffuseness on the energy and width of the giant dipole resonance is studied, and approximating formulas are obtained for these quantities. These formulas make it possible to describe experimental data in the mass range 16<A<240.     

Angular momentum dependence of the giant dipole resonance width in excited nuclei of mass

Gamma ray spectra in the energy range of 4–25 MeV were measured in the reaction ²⁸Si + ¹²⁴Sn at E(²⁸Si) 150 MeV in coincidence with low energy γ-multiplicities. The spectra were analysed using a simulated Monte Carlo CASCADE code. The centroid energy and width of the giant dipole resonance were extracted for various multiplicity windows. The average angular momentum and temperature of the final states populated after the giant dipole photon emission range from 25 and 1.5 MeV to 56 and 1.3 MeV, respectively. The extracted widths are almost constant for the lower multiplicity windows and show an increase of 1.4 MeV at the highest window. The nuclei are expected to be near the liquid drop regime and the experimental results are not inconsistent with the liquid drop behaviour.     

Damping of giant dipole resonances at finite temperature

The damping width γ^↓_GDR of the giant dipole resonance, due to its coupling to doorway states, is studied within the framework of the thermal Green's functions theory. It is found that γ^↓_GDR reflects the temperature dependence of the single-particle damping width but, as a consequence of the cancellation effects between self-energy and vertex contributions, the coefficient of such a dependence is so small that it can essentially be neglected, within the temperature range of physical interest.     

The width of the giant dipole resonance built on excited states of Cu compound nuclei

Continuumγ- ray spectra from the decay of⁵⁹Cu formed at an excitation energy of 100 MeV and angular momenta up to 43? by means of the reaction 190 MeV³²S +²⁷Al have been measured and analyzed. The parameters of the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) have been extracted using the statistical model. The derived GDR width confirms the sizeable broadening of this resonance in⁵⁹Cu already reported in our earlier investigation at 77 MeV excitation energy (J_crit=38?). Estimates of the GDR width have been performed in the adiabatic approximation. Predicted values account qualitatively for the experimental data of⁵⁹Cu as well as of the heavier isotope⁶³Cu, in which the broadening was not seen up to 77MeV excitation (J_crit=35?). The present analysis demonstrates the strong sensitivity of the GDR to spin effects in this mass region.     

Photofission of 238U at the energy of the giant dipole resonance

Photofission of ²³⁸ U by bremsstrahlung photons is studied at four energies of an electron accelerator: 19.5, 29.1, 48.3, and 67.7 MeV. The yields of the fission fragments after the emission of prompt neutrons are obtained using the gamma-ray spectroscopic technique. The mass distributions of photofission are obtained at different upper energies of the bremsstrahlung spectrum. The ratio the symmetric-fission mode to the asymmetric mode is obtained from the mass distribution. The symmetric mode becomes 3–4 times greater than the asymmetric as the excitation energy of the ²³⁸U nucleus increases from 12 to 16 MeV.     

The low-lying isoscalar giant dipole resonance

This short note is aimed to comment on the recently observed low component of the isoscalar giant dipole resonance in connection with the theoretical predictions made by microscopic and hydrodynamical models. Received: 23 November 2001 / Accepted: 15 February 2002     

Anharmonic properties of the double giant dipole resonance

A systematic microscopic study of the anharmonic properties of the double giant dipole resonance (DGDR) has been carried out, for the first time, for nuclei with mass number A spanning the whole mass table. It is concluded that the corrections of the energy centroid of the Jpi = 0(+) and 2(+) components of the DGDR from its harmonic limit are negative, have a value of the order of a few hundred keV, and follow an A-1 dependence.     

The giant dipole resonance in 55Co

Recent measurements of the ⁵⁴Fe(p, γ)⁵⁵Co cross section indicate the existence of a splitting between the T_< and T_> components of the giant dipole resonance. We have calculated the (p, γ) cross section in the shell-model formalism. The bound-state interaction was determined by a fit to fp and sd shell nuclei. The calculation predicts the isospin splitting of ≈ 2.4 MeV and is consistent with all data in the energy region E_p = 9–15 MeV as well as the low-lying ⁵⁵Co spectrum.     

Microscopic theory of the isovector dipole resonance at high angular momenta

The giant dipole resonance at large angular velocities and finite temperatures is studied within the framwork of temperature-dependent linear response theory for superfluid Fermi liquids. The peak energy of the resonance and its splitting is discussed as a function of angular momentum and temperature. The influence of the shape and gap parameters on the fine structure is investigated.     

Photoneutron reactions in the range of giant dipole resonance

The well-known significant systematic disagreements between data on partial photoneutron reaction cross sections obtained in experiments using quasimonoenergetic annihilation photons and bremsstrahlung were investigated using objective physical criteria of data reliability. It was shown that many data are not reliable because of significant systematic uncertainties of the photoneutron multiplicity sorting methods used. The experimental–theoretical method for evaluation of reliable partial reaction cross sections was proposed and many new data were obtained.     

Direct neutron decay of the isoscalar giant dipole resonance

The direct and statistical neutron decay of the isoscalar giant dipole resonance has been studied in ⁹⁰Zr, ¹¹⁶Sn, and ²⁰⁸Pb using the (α, α’ n) reaction at a bombarding energy of 200 MeV. The spectra of fast decay neutrons populating valence hole states of the Z, N − 1 nuclei were analyzed, and estimates for the branching ratios were determined. The observation of the nucleon-direct-decay channels helped to select giant-resonance strengths and suppress the underlying background and continuum, which led to an indication of the existence of a new mode with L = 2 character, presumably the overtone of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

High temperature giant dipole and isoscalar resonances

We present a systematic study of the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) at high temperatures (T≧4 MeV) in the framework of a semiclassical approximation that uses them ₁ andm ₃ RPA sum rules to estimate the GDR mean energy. We focus on the evolution withT of the collective nature of the GDR and of theL=0, 2, 3 and 4 isoscalar resonances. We find that the GDR remains particularly collective at highT, suggesting that it might be possible to observe it experimentally even at temperatures close to the maximum one a nucleus can sustain.     

Splitting of the giant dipole resonance in deformed metal clusters

The photoabsorption in small deformed metal clusters is considered. The valence electron spill-out is disregarded. It is shown that in the deformed clusters the giant dipole resonance splits into two separate resonances. This splitting is due to the difference of the oscillator frequencies for the electron motion in the effective field of the deformed clusters. The ratio of the cross-sections in the resonance maxima is obtained. The theoretical results are compared with the experimental data.     

The shape of the giant dipole resonance for light nuclei

A complete spectrum of the giant dipole resonance is calculated taking into account the finite depth of the single particle potential. The mixing of the one particle-one hole excitations because of residual interactions is treated in the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation. If the interaction is approximated by a separable potential a general formula can be derived, which gives the total dipole excitation cross section σ(E) in terms of the simple shell-model cross section σ₀(E). Numerical results are given for O¹⁶ and C¹² by evaluating σ₀(E) in a square well potential.