Published February 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Test of the statistical model in 96Mo with the BaF2γ calorimeter DANCE array

  • 1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (United States) and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)
  • 2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-414, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)
  • 3. Charles University in Prague, CZ-180 00 Prague 8 (Czech Republic)
  • 4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 5. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)

Description

The γ-ray cascades following the 95Mo(n,γ)96Mo reaction were studied with the γ calorimeter DANCE (Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments) consisting of 160 BaF2 scintillation detectors at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. The γ-ray energy spectra for different multiplicities were measured for s- and p-wave resonances below 2 keV. The shapes of these spectra were found to be in very good agreement with simulations using the DICEBOX statistical model code. The relevant model parameters used for the level density and photon strength functions were identical with those that provided the best fit of the data from a recent measurement of the thermal 95Mo(n,γ)96Mo reaction with the two-step-cascade method. The reported results strongly suggest that the extreme statistical model works very well in the mass region near A=100

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 024301-024301.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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