Electromagnetic dipole strength of136Ba below the neutron separation energy

Abstract

The electromagnetic dipole strength of the nucleus ${}^{136}$Ba has been investigated. Two measurements were performed with electron energies of 7.0 and 11.4 MeV at the bremsstrahlung facility at the ELBE accelerator of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Photon scattering experiments on the same nucleus have been performed at the high-intensity gamma-ray source (HI$\ensuremath{\gamma}$S) facility of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory between 4.7 and 9.3 MeV. The geant4 code has been used to determine detector response and non-nuclear scattered events. Thus it is possible to account for the dipole strength in the quasicontinuum of unresolvable transitions. A statistical code was used to simulate inelastic transitions and to determine the branching ratios of transitions to the ground state. The resulting photoabsorption cross section is compared to quasiparticle random-phase approximation and relativistic quasiparticle time blocking approximation calculations.