Experimental Evidence of Large Collective Enhancement of Nuclear Level Density and its Significance in Radiative Neutron Capture

Author:

T. Santhosh, P. C. Rout, S. Santra, A. Shrivastava, G. Mohanto, S. K. Pandit, A. Pal, Ramandeep Gandhi, A. Baishya, Sangeeta Dhuri

Keyword:

Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

journal:

Physics Letters B, Volume 841,137934 (2023)

date:

2023-10-09 16:00:00

Abstract

The collective enhancement of nuclear level density and its fade out with excitation energy in deformed $^{171}$Yb nucleus has been inferred through an exclusive measurement of neutron spectra.The statistical model analysis of neutron spectra demonstrated a large collective enhancement factor of 40$\pm$3 for the first time, which corroborates with the recent microscopic model predictions but is an anomalous result compared with the measurements in the nearby deformed nuclei. The complete picture of the energy dependent collective enhancement has been obtained by combining with Oslo data below neutron binding energy. The significance of large collective enhancement in radiative neutron capture cross section of astrophysical interest is highlighted.

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