Giant Dipole Resonance in Photonuclear Experiments of Various Types: Discrepancies, Reasons, Methods of Overcoming, Consequenses

Varlamov V. V., Ishkhanov B. S.

The photonuclear reaction investigation plays very important role in both basic and applied nuclear physics research. Parameters of Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) observed in cross sections of various reactions induced by g quanta are of great interest for study of structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei, nuclear reaction mechanisms, involved into the research in the field of relativistic heavy ions. Absolute majority of photonuclear reaction cross section data has been obtained in experiments using electron bremsstrahlung and quasimonoenergetic photons produced by annihilation in flight of relativistic positrons. There are many clear systematical disagreements between data obtained in these types of experiments: they are clearly larger than statistical data uncertainties and depend directly on the method used to obtain data. All of them embarrass the data practical using. The development of complete advanced databases gave the possibility to overview jointly all photonuclear reaction data obtained, to carry out new analysis of data accuracy and reliability, and to produce recommendation how to take into account systematical discrepancies of various experiments caused by differences of experimental methods, procedures of measured data processing to obtain the information on reaction cross section. With the aim of studying possible reasons of systematical disagreements between the results of various experiments, developing methods of taking them into account and bringing the results of various experiments to consistency, the joint investigation of many photonuclear reaction cross section data obtained in various experiments was carried out. Special treatment was devoted to the yields and cross sections of total (g, xn) and partial (g, n) and (g, 2n) photoneutron reactions that put the main contributions to the GDR forming. The main attention was paid to the specifics of experiments with quasimonoenergetic annihilation photons carried out primarily at Livermore (USA) and Saclay (France). Significant systematical discrepancies arising due to the difference between these experiments effective photon spectra as well as in procedures of neutron multiplicity sorting for reactions (g, n) and (g, 2n) are analyzed.

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