Statistical Properties of Excited Nuclei in the Mass Range 47≤A≤59

State Scientific Center of Russia Federation – Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, 249033 Obninsk, Kaluga region, Russia.

Abstract

Level densities and their energy dependences for nuclei in the mass range 47≤A≤59 have been determined from the measurements of neutron evaporation spectra in (p,n) reaction. Neutron spectra from (p,n) reaction on nuclei of ⁴⁷Ti, ⁴⁸Ti, ⁴⁹Ti, ⁵³Cr, ⁵⁴Cr, ⁵⁷Fe, ⁵⁹Co have been measured at proton energies between 7 and 11 MeV. The measurements of neutron spectra were performed by time-of-flight fast neutron spectrometer on the pulsed tandem accelerator EGP-15 of IPPE. The high resolution and stability of time-of-flight spectrometer allowed identify reliably the discrete low-lying levels together with continuum part of neutron spectra. Analyses of the measured data have been carried out in the framework of statistical equilibrium and pre-equilibrium models of nuclear reactions. The calculations are done with use of the exact formalism of the statistical theory as given by Hauser-Feshbach with the generalized superfluid model of nucleus, the back-shifted Fermi-gas model and the composite formula of Gilbert-Cameron for nuclear level density. The nuclear level densities of ⁴⁷V, ⁴⁸V, ⁴⁹V, ⁵³Mn, ⁵⁴Mn, ⁵⁷Co, ⁵⁹Ni and their energy dependences have been determined. The obtained results have been discussed in totality with existing experimental and model systematic data.