Extraction of level density and gamma strength function from primary gamma spectra

Abstract

We present a new iterative procedure to extract the level density and the gamma strength function from primary gamma spectra for energies close up to the neutron binding energy. The procedure is tested on simulated spectra and on data from the Yb-173(He-3,alpha)Yb-172 reaction.

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