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 …

The nucleus is one of the most multifaceted many-body systems in the Universe. It exhibits a
multitude of responses depending on the way one “probes” it. With increasing technical …

Considerable progress has been achieved in the experimental investigation and theoretical
understanding of isovector valence shell structures in heavy nuclei that are frequently called …

After a short introduction to the nuclear resonance fluorescence technique (NRF) and a brief
description of typical photon scattering facilities, the present topical review focuses on three …

High resolution photon scattering experiments were performed at the 10 MeV
bremsstrahlung facility of the electron accelerator S-DALINAC at TU Darmstadt to investigate …

Lifetimes of levels below 4 MeV in Cd 112 have been measured using the Doppler shift
attenuation technique following inelastic scattering of monoenergetic neutrons. Reduced …

The structure of even-even Cd 108–116 isotopes is investigated based on the self-
consistent mean-field approach. By mapping the quadrupole-(β, γ) deformation energy …

Large-scale shell-model calculations for the even-even cadmium isotopes Cd 98–Cd 108
have been performed with the antoine code in the π (2 p 1/2; 1 g 9/2) ν (2 d 5/2; 3 s 1/2; 2 d …

Systematic nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) experiments on all nine stable (seven
even-even and two odd-mass) Xe isotopes have been performed at the bremsstrahlung …

Properties of low-spin states in Cd 114 have been studied with the (n, n'γ) reaction. Gamma-
ray angular distributions and excitation functions have been used to characterize the decays …