Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2012
Abstract
A new experimental technique is presented using proton-gamma-gamma correlations from Mo-94(d, p)Mo-95 reactions which allows for the model-independent extraction of the photon strength function at various excitation energies using primary gamma-ray decay from the quasicontinuum to individual low-lying levels. Detected particle energies provide the entrance excitation energies into the residual nucleus while gamma-ray transitions from low-lying levels specify the discrete states being fed.
Results strongly support the existence of the previously reported low-energy enhancement in the photon strength function.