Kleemann, Jörn (2024)
Probing the Giant Dipole Resonance Using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027008
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
Text
Kleemann_Dissertation_2024.pdf Copyright Information: CC BY 4.0 International - Creative Commons, Attribution. Download (10MB) |
Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Probing the Giant Dipole Resonance Using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Pietralla, Prof. Dr. Norbert ; Enders, Prof. Dr. Joachim | ||||
Date: | 20 December 2024 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | xxii, 227 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 20 November 2024 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00027008 | ||||
Abstract: | This work focuses on the experimental investigation of γ decay of the nuclear isovector giant dipole resonance (GDR). While it is a key property of one of the most fundamental nuclear excitations, it has remained poorly characterized despite decades of research on the GDR. To address this long-standing issue, a novel experimental method to systematically study γ decay of the GDR has been developed in this work. It combines the well-established nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) technique with state-of-the-art laser-Compton back-scattering (LCB) photon sources for measurements in the GDR's energy domain. A key innovation lies in the usage of linearly polarized LCB photon beams to excite the GDR. This allows resolving its γ decays to final states close in energy, such as the 2⁺₁ and 0⁺₁ states of deformed nuclei, based on the distinct angular distributions of their NRF reactions. The newly devised approach was successfully applied in a pilot photonuclear experiment on the GDRs of the semi-magical, spherical nuclide ¹⁴⁰Ce and the well-deformed ¹⁵⁴Sm at the High Intensity γ-ray Source (HIγS) in Durham, NC, USA. Data was taken at six excitation energies, covering the full evolution of the GDRs of these nuclides. For both, a smooth evolution of the γ-decay behavior of their GDRs with energy is observed and the determined γ-decay branching ratios of the order of 1% are in agreement with previous measurements. The elastic-scattering cross sections are found to be consistent with the interpretation of the GDR as one coherent excitation. For ¹⁴⁰Ce, no γ decay of its GDR to the 2⁺₁ state is detected, resulting in stringent upper limits on this decay channel. Contrarily, for the deformed ¹⁵⁴Sm significant γ decay of its double-humped GDR to the 2⁺₁ state is observed and found to be subject to a strong energy dependence. The data is well described by the geometrical model of the GDR, demonstrating for the first time its capability to reproduce the GDR's photoabsorption, elastic-scattering, and 2⁺₁ Raman-scattering cross sections simultaneously with great accuracy. This high descriptive power is a novel, compelling argument for the model's validity. Furthermore, γ decay is established as an experimental probe highly sensitive to the structure of the GDR. Finally, this sensitivity is exploited to place strong constraints on the nuclear shape of ¹⁵⁴Sm, including its degree of triaxiality. The derived shape parameters agree well with those of other experimental approaches and recent Monte Carlo Shell-Model calculations. |
||||
Alternative Abstract: |
|
||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-270081 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Experimentelle Kernphysik > Experimentelle Kernstruktur und S-DALINAC | ||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2024 13:13 | ||||
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2024 13:13 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27008 | ||||
PPN: | |||||
Export: |
View Item |