Total (p, n) reaction cross section study on51V over the incident energy range 1·56 to 5·53 MeV

Abstract

The total (p, n) reaction cross section for51V has been measured as a function of proton energy in the energy range 1·56 to 5·53 MeV with thick and thin targets. The fluctuations in the fine resolution excitation functions were analysed, to extract 〈Γ〉, the coherence width. The thick target excitation function suitably averaged over appropriate energy intervals has been compared with the optical model, Hauser-Feshbach and Hauser-Feshbach-Moldauer calculations. The strong isobaric analog resonance atE p ∼ 2·340 has been shape analysed to extract the proton width Γ p , the spreading withW and the spectroscopic factor.