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    Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Sep 23;95(13):132501. Epub 2005 Sep 21.

    Evidence for pygmy and giant dipole resonances in 130Sn and 132Sn.

    Adrich P, Klimkiewicz A, Fallot M, Boretzky K, Aumann T, Cortina-Gil D, Pramanik UD, Elze TW, Emling H, Geissel H, Hellström M, Jones KL, Kratz JV, Kulessa R, Leifels Y, Nociforo C, Palit R, Simon H, Surówka G, Sümmerer K, Waluś W; LANDS-FRS Collaboration.

    Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany.

    The dipole strength distribution above the one-neutron separation energy was measured in the unstable 130Sn and the double-magic 132Sn isotopes. The results were deduced from Coulomb dissociation of secondary Sn beams with energies around 500 MeV/nucleon, produced by in-flight fission of a primary 238U beam. In addition to the giant dipole resonance, a resonancelike structure ("pygmy resonance") is observed at a lower excitation energy around 10 MeV exhausting a few percent of the isovector E1 energy-weighted sum rule. The results are discussed in the context of a predicted new dipole mode of excess neutrons oscillating out of phase with the core nucleons.

    PMID: 16197134 [PubMed]

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