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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 645, Issue 2, 11 January 1999, Pages 239-261
Nuclear Physics A

Complete scissors mode strength in heavy deformed odd-mass nuclei: a case study of 165Ho and 169Tm

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Abstract

The low-energy dipole strength distributions in 165Ho and 169Tm have been studied in nuclear resonance fluorescence experiments at the S-DALINAC utilizing a Euroball Cluster detector. In the energy interval between 2.5 and 4.0 MeV, where the scissors mode is expected, 35 ground state transitions could be observed in 165Ho and 53 in 169Tm. Assuming M1 character for all these transitions corresponds to ΣB(M1) ↑= 1.54(23), μN2 and ΣB(M1) ↑= 2.15(63), μN2 for 165Ho and 169Tm, respectively. A statistical analysis is applied to the measured spectra which is capable of reconstructing the complete strength, including contributions of transitions below the observation limit, with the ratio between M1 and E1 excitations and their total strengths taken as an average over the even-mass neighbours. This results in summed M1 transition strengths of ΣB(M1) ↑= 3.54−0.95+0.75, μN2 (165Ho) and ΣB(M1) ↑= 3.36−0.57+1.00μN2 (169Tm). The large variations of the summed dipole strength and the fragmentation in other deformed odd-mass nuclei can be reproduced by the same statistical ansatz. The total low-lying M1 strength in heavy deformed odd-mass nuclei is in agreement with the findings in the neighbouring even-mass nuclides as well as with sum-rule predictions.

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    Supported by the DFG under contract Nos. Ri 242/12-1 and Br 799/6-2 and by the BMBF under 06 OK 862 I and 06 DR 666 I.

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    Deceased.

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    Present address: Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

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    Visitor from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

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    Present address: Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.

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