Entropy in hot ^{161,162}Dy and ^{171,172}Yb nuclei

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1999-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/9911011v1

Phys.Rev. C62 (2000) 024306

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

19 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.62.024306

The density of accessible levels at low spin in the (^3He,\alpha \gamma) reaction has been extracted for the ^{161,162}Dy and ^{171,172}Yb nuclei. The entropy of the even-odd and even-even nuclei has been deduced as a function of excitation energy, and found to reach a maximum of 15 k_B before neutron evaporation. The entropy of one quasi-particle outside an even-even core is found to be 1.70(15) k_B. This quasi-particle picture of hot nuclei is well accounted for within a simple pairing model. The onset of two, four and six quasi-particle excitations in the ^{162}Dy and ^{172}Yb nuclei is discussed and compared to theory. The number of quasi-particles excited per excitation energy is a measure for the ratio of the level energy spacing and the pairing strength.

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