Compressional-mode giant resonances in deformed nuclei

M. Itoh, H. Sakaguchi, M. Uchida, T. Ishikawa, T. Kawabata, T. Murakami, H. Takeda, T. Taki, S. Terashima, N. Tsukahara, Y. Yasuda, M. Yosoi, U. Garg, M. Hedden, B. Kharraja, M. Koss, B. K. Nayak, S. Zhu, H. Fujimura, M. FujiwaraK. Hara, H. P. Yoshida, H. Akimune, M. N. Harakeh, M. Volkerts

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Abstract

Background-free inelastic scattering spectra have been obtained for the Sm isotopes with 400 MeV α particles at forward angles (including 0°) to investigate the effect of deformation on the compressional-mode giant resonances. The strength distributions for the isoscalar giant resonances (L ≤ 3) have been extracted for the spherical nucleus 144Sm and the deformed nucleus 154Sm. We have observed that the effects of deformation are different for the low- and high-excitation-energy components of the isoscalar giant dipole resonance in 154Sm. Evidence for the theoretically predicted coupling between the isoscalar dipole resonance and the high-energy octupole resonance is reported.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)58-63
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume549
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002 Nov 28

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