Rotational Damping and Compound Formation in Warm Rotating Nuclei
arXiv:nucl-th/0212050 · doi:10.1063/1.1556620
Abstract
The rotational damping width Î_{rot} and the compound damping width Î_{comp} are two fundamental quantities that characterize rapidly rotating compound nuclei having finite thermal excitation energy. A two-component structure in the strength function of consecutive E2 transitions reflects the two widths, and it causes characteristic features in the double and triple gamma-ray spectra. We discuss a new method to extract experimentally values of Î_{rot} and Î_{comp}. The first preliminary result of this method is presented.
PDF, 8 pages, invited talk at the Conference on Frontiers of Nuclear Structure (FNS2002), August 2002, Berkeley