https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714601010
Nuclear level densities and γ-ray strength functions of 180,181Ta and neutron capture cross sections
1 iThemba LABS, PO Box 722, Somerset West, 7129, South Africa
2 Physics Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
3 Physics Department, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa
4 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
5 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550-9234, USA
6 Helmholtz Institute Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
7 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
a e-mail: kgashanel@gmail.com
b e-mail: bngkheswa@gmail.com
c e-mail: wiedeking@tlabs.ac.za
Published online: 13 September 2017
The γ-ray strength functions and nuclear level densities in the quasi-continuum of 180,181Ta are extracted from particle-γ coincidence events with the Oslo Method, below the Sn. The data were used as input in the TALYS reaction code for calculations of the astrophysical Maxwellian-averaged (n,γ) cross-sections to investigate nucleosynthesis of nature's rarest stable isotope 180Ta.
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