2014 National Senior Certificate Examination Diagnostic report
NITheP WITS node seminar: Prof. V. Yu. Ponomarev (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) TITLE: "Pygmy dipole resonance in atomic nuclei"
1. Pygmy dipole resonance in atomic nuclei
V.Yu. Ponomarev
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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2. Outline
Introduction
Quasiparticle-phonon model
Basic of pygmy resonance
Low lying E1 strength in Ni, Sn, N=82 isotones, and Pb
Excitation of pygmy in (α, α ) reaction
Excitation of pygmy in (p, p ) reaction
1−
states in (e, e ) scattering
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Figure 7 shows the analysis of the data for
uranium. It is evident that the cross section for
photo-fission must be extremely small for
quantum energies above 30 Mev. The resulting
curve of 0 (E) vs. E is given in Fig. 8 for uranium.
0'a to "cM',
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FrG. 8. Cross section for photo-fission of uranium.
Because of approximations made in the analysis and
uncertainty of the experimental data for low x-ray energies,
this curve must be considered of only qualitative sig-
nificance.
The determination of the cross section in-
volves first drawing a smooth curve through the
experimental points, multiplying the ordinates
of this curve by a function known only roughly, ,
and then differentiating the product; It is evident
that the given data are not sufficiently precise
to determine the cross section as a function of
energy, even if the calculation of r(E) were
exact, since in this case the portion of the yield
curve which is most significant to the deter-
mination of the cross section is that below 30
Mev. The experimental points in this region are
subject to considerable Huctuation, and the true
yield curve may be appreciably different from
G.C. Baldwin and G.S. Klaiber,
Phys. Rev. 71 (1947) 3
EGDR ∝ 80 · A−1/3
MeV
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4. R. M. Laszewski and P. Axel
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