Low-energy enhancement in the photon strength of 95Mo

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Apr 20;108(16):162503. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.162503. Epub 2012 Apr 19.

Abstract

A new experimental technique is presented using proton-γ-γ correlations from (94)Mo(d,p)(95)Mo reactions which allows for the model-independent extraction of the photon strength function at various excitation energies using primary γ-ray decay from the quasicontinuum to individual low-lying levels. Detected particle energies provide the entrance excitation energies into the residual nucleus while γ-ray transitions from low-lying levels specify the discrete states being fed. Results strongly support the existence of the previously reported low-energy enhancement in the photon strength function.