Electromagnetic dipole strength of 136Ba below the neutron separation energy

The electromagnetic dipole strength of the nucleus 136Ba has been investigated. Two measurements were performed with electron energies of 7.0 and 11.4 MeV at the bremsstrahlung facility at the ELBE accelerator of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Photon scattering experiments on the same nucleus have been performed at the high-intensity gamma-ray source (HIγS) facility of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory between 4.7 and 9.3 MeV. The geant4 code has been used to determine detector response and non-nuclear scattered events. Thus it is possible to account for the dipole strength in the quasicontinuum of unresolvable transitions. A statistical code was used to simulate inelastic transitions and to determine the branching ratios of transitions to the ground state. The resulting photoabsorption cross section is compared to quasiparticle random-phase approximation and relativistic quasiparticle time blocking approximation calculations. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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