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Rotational Damping and Compound Formation in Warm Rotating Nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The rotational damping width \Gamma_{rot} and the compound damping width \Gamma_{comp} are two fundamental quantities that characterize rapidly rotating compound nuclei having finite thermal excitation energy. A two-component structure in the strength function of consecutive E2 transitions reflects the two widths, and it causes characteristic features in the double and triple gamma-ray spectra. We discuss a new method to extract experimentally values of \Gamma_{rot} and \Gamma_{comp}. The first preliminary result of this method is presented.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0212050,
  title  = {Rotational Damping and Compound Formation in Warm Rotating Nuclei},
  author = {M. Matsuo and S. Leoni and C. Grassi and E. Vigezzi and A. Bracco and T. Dossing and B. Herskind},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0212050},
  year   = {2009}
}

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PDF, 8 pages, invited talk at the Conference on Frontiers of Nuclear Structure (FNS2002), August 2002, Berkeley