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Studies of the Giant Dipole Resonance in 27Al , 40Ca , 56Fe , 58Ni and 208Pb with high energy-resolution inelastic proton scattering under 0°

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A survey of the fine structure of the Isovector Giant Dipole Resonance (IVGDR) was performed, using the recently commissioned Zero-degree Facility of the K600 magnetic spectrometer at iThemba LABS. Inelastic proton scattering at an incident energy of 200MeV was measured on 27Al , 40Ca , 56Fe , 58Ni and 208Pb . A high energy-resolution ( \( \Delta E\simeq 40\) keV FWHM) could be achieved after utilising faint-beam and dispersion-matching techniques. A considerable fine structure is observed in the energy region of the IVGDR and characteristic energy scales are extracted from the experimental data by means of a wavelet analysis. The comparison with Quasiparticle-Phonon Model (QPM) calculations provides insight into the relevance of different giant resonance decay mechanisms. Photoabsorption cross sections derived from the data assuming a dominance of relativistic Coulomb excitation are in fair agreement with previous work using real photons.

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Jingo, M., Buthelezi, E.Z., Carter, J. et al. Studies of the Giant Dipole Resonance in 27Al , 40Ca , 56Fe , 58Ni and 208Pb with high energy-resolution inelastic proton scattering under 0°. Eur. Phys. J. A 54, 234 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12664-5

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