Published April 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Heavy-ion excitation and photon decay of giant resonances in /sup 208/Pb

  • 1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

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We have determined the ground-state photon decay probability and the branching ratios to a number of low-lying states as a function of excitation energy in /sup 208/Pb up to /similar to/15 MeV. Results for the giant quadrupole resonance at 10.6 MeV include determination of a ground-state electromagnetic transition strength B(E2)up-arrow = 5800 +- 1600 e2fm4 and observation of strong suppression of the E1 transition from the resonance to the 3- state at 2.6 MeV. These results confirm the common assumption of the predominately isoscalar character of the 10.6-MeV resonance. Ground-state gamma coincidences enable us to isolate the isovector giant dipole resonance, which is too weak to be seen in singles, and to test models for its excitation in heavy-ion scattering

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Journal Title
Physical Review, C
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
1307-1319
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCA