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Title: Description of cross sections for photonuclear reactions in the energy range between 7 and 140 MeV

Journal Article · · Physics of Atomic Nuclei

A combination of the exciton and evaporation models is used to describe photonuclear reactions induced in light, medium-mass, and heavy nuclei by photons of energy in the range 7 {<=} E{sub {gamma} {<=}} 140 MeV. Two mechanisms of the photoexcitation of nuclei are considered. These are the formation of a giant dipole resonance at energies in the range E{sub {gamma} {<=}} 30 MeV and quasideuteron photoabsorption, which is dominant at energies in the region E{sub {gamma} {>=}} 40 MeV. The density of particle-hole states, which appears in the exciton model, is calculated on the basis of the Fermi gas model. The emission of two preequilibrium particles is taken into account in describing the quasideuteron reaction channel. The effect of isospin conservation on giant-dipole-resonance decay accompanied by photonucleon emission is examined. The model in question is used to describe cross sections for photon-induced reactions on {sup 26}Mg, {sup 54}Fe, {sup 112,118,119,124}Sn, and {sup 181}Ta nuclei.

OSTI ID:
21405991
Journal Information:
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 72, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063778809030041; Copyright (c) 2009 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7788
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English