Photonuclear reactions—From basic research to applications

A Zilges, DL Balabanski, J Isaak, N Pietralla - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear reactions induced by photons play a vital role for very different aspects of basic
research and applications in physics. They are a key ingredient for the synthesis of nuclei in …

Experimental studies of the pygmy dipole resonance

D Savran, T Aumann, A Zilges - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
The electric dipole response of atomic nuclei has attracted a lot of attention from
experimentalists and theorists in the last decade. This review gives an overview about the …

[HTML][HTML] Isoscalar and isovector dipole excitations: Nuclear properties from low-lying states and from the isovector giant dipole resonance

A Bracco, EG Lanza, A Tamii - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
This review paper concerns the research devoted to the study of the properties of dipole
excitations in nuclei. The main focus is on questions related to isospin effects in these types …

Theoretical studies of pygmy resonances

EG Lanza, L Pellegri, A Vitturi, MV Andrés - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review aims at giving a critical description of the theoretical researches conducted on
the low-lying dipole states traditionally denoted as Pygmy Dipole Resonances (PDR). A brief …

The activation method for cross section measurements in nuclear astrophysics

G Gyürky, Z Fülöp, F Käppeler, GG Kiss… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
The primary aim of experimental nuclear astrophysics is to determine the rates of nuclear
reactions taking place in stars in various astrophysical conditions. These reaction rates are …

Perspectives for photonuclear research at the Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility

D Filipescu, A Anzalone, DL Balabanski… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
The perspectives for photonuclear experiments at the new Extreme Light Infrastructure-
Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility are discussed in view of the need to accumulate novel and …

Fragmentation and systematics of the pygmy dipole resonance in the stable isotones

D Savran, M Elvers, J Endres, M Fritzsche, B Löher… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
The low-lying electric dipole (E 1) strength in the semimagic nucleus 136 Xe has been
measured, which finalizes the systematic survey to investigate the so-called pygmy dipole …

The high-efficiency γ-ray spectroscopy setup γ3 at HIγS

B Löher, V Derya, T Aumann, J Beller, N Cooper… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The existing Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) setup at the HI γ S facility at
the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke University has been extended in order …

Structure of the pygmy dipole resonance in Sn

J Endres, D Savran, PA Butler, MN Harakeh… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
Background: In atomic nuclei, a concentration of electric dipole strength around the particle
threshold, commonly denoted as pygmy dipole resonance, may have a significant impact on …

Constraining nuclear photon strength functions by the decay properties of photo-excited states

J Isaak, D Savran, M Krtička, MW Ahmed, J Beller… - Physics Letters B, 2013 - Elsevier
A new approach for constraining the low-energy part of the electric dipole Photon Strength
Function (E1-PSF) is presented. Experiments at the Darmstadt High-Intensity Photon Setup …