EPJ Web of Conferences 21, 05001 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122105001

Recent experimental results on level densities for compound reaction calculations

Physics and Astronomy Department, Ohio University, Athens 45701, Ohio

^a e-mail: voinov@ohio.edu

Abstract

Proton evaporation spectra from ^6,7Li induced reactions on ^54,56,58Fe nuclei have been measured and analyzed with Hauser-Feshbach compound reaction calculations with a Gilbert and Cameron input level density model. Level densities of residual ^59-64Ni nuclei have been extracted from proton spectra. Both level density and level density parameter a have been compared against the respective values obtained from neutron resonance spacing data. The discrepancy has been found in systematics behavior of level densities against the mass number of Ni isotopes.