Low-energy limit of the radiative dipole strength in nuclei

Abstract

We explain the low-energy anomaly reported in several experimental studies of the radiative dipole strength functions in medium-mass nuclei. These strength functions at very low gamma-energies correspond to the gamma-transitions between very close nuclear excited states in the quasicontinuum. In terms of the thermal mean-field, the low-energy enhancement of the strength functions in highly-excited compound nuclei is explained by nucleonic transitions from the thermally unblocked single-quasiparticle states to the single-(quasi)particle continuum. This result is obtained within the finite-temperature quasiparticle random phase approximation in the coordinate space with exact treatment of the single-particle continuum and exactly eliminated spurious translational mode. The case of radiative dipole strength functions at the nuclear excitation energies typical for the thermal neutron capture is illustrated for 94-Mo and 144-Nd in comparison to available data.

Article; 4 pages, 4 figures

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