Abstract
Neutron time of flight spectroscopy measurements were made for a range of sample thickness on the even separated Gd isotopes . These include transmission measurements using 200 and 40 m flight paths and self-indication measurements using a 40 m flight path. Resonance parameters were obtained for 48 levels to 1 keV for and for 95 and 56 levels to 10 keV for and . The experimental -wave strength functions were , respectively. For , the strength function is . Essentially complete -wave populations were obtained for the first 19 levels in with eV and (vs ); 47 levels in with eV and (vs ); and 20 levels in with and (vs ). Comparison of the observed distributions with the Porter-Thomas theory and the observed level spacings with the Wigner theory and other statistical orthogonal ensemble tests gave good results for the energy intervals over which complete populations were observed. The average radiation widths were meV determined from levels in , meV () in and meV () in .
NUCLEAR REACTIONS , (), keV; measured ; deduced , , , , , .
- Received 17 June 1974
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.10.1904
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