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Measurement Of The Entry-Spin Distribution Imparted To The High Excitation Continuum Region Of Gadolinium Nuclei Via (P,D) And (P,T) Reactions, T. J. Ross, C. W. Beausang, R. O. Hughes, J. M. Allmond, C. Angell, M. S. Basunia, D. L. Bleuel, J. T. Burke, R. J. Casperson, J. Escher, P. Fallon, R. Hatarik, J. Munson, S. Paschalis, M. Petri, L. Phair, J. J. Ressler, N. D. Scielzo, I. Thompson

Physics Faculty Publications

Over the last several years, the surrogate reaction technique has been successfully employed to extract (n,f) and (n,γ) cross sections in the actinide region to a precision of ∼5% and ∼20%, respectively. However, attempts to apply the technique in the rare earth region have shown large (factors of 2–3) discrepancies between the directly measured (n,γ) and extracted surrogate cross sections. One possible origin of this discrepancy lies in differences between the initial spin-parity population distribution in the neutron induced and surrogate reactions. To address this issue, the angular …