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Contents
Part III Optical Models
Linking Nuclear Reactions and Nuclear Structure to Study Exotic
Nuclei Using the Dispersive Optical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
W. H. Dickhoff
Microscopic Optical Potential from Chiral Effective Field Theory . . . . . . . . 91
T. R. Whitehead, Y. Lim, and J. W. Holt
Part IV Level Densities
Nuclear Level Densities: From Empirical Models to Microscopic
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Y. Alhassid
Problem of Level Densities in Compound Nuclear Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Alexander Voinov
Nuclear Shell Model and Level Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Vladimir Zelevinsky and Sofia Karampagia
Constraining Level Densities Using Spectral Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Gustavo P. A. Nobre, David A. Brown, and Michal W. Herman
Rotational Enhancement Factor for Nuclear Level Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
S. M. Grimes
Role of Fluctuations on the Pairing Properties of Nuclei in the
Random Spacing Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
M. A. A. Mamun, C. Constantinou, and M. Prakash
Part V Gamma-Ray Strength Functions
Gamma Strength Functions and the Brink-Axel Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Peter von Neumann-Cosel
γ-Ray Strength Functions and GDR Cross Sections in the IAEA
Photonuclear Data Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
H. Utsunomiya, I. Gheorghe, D. M. Filipescu, K. Stopani, S. Belyshev,
T. Renstrøm, G. M. Tveten, G. Fan, H. Wang, S. Goriely, Y.-W. Lui,
T. Ari-izumi, S. Miyamoto, V. Varlamov, B. Ishkhanov, A. C. Larsen,
and S. Siem
Neutron Capture on Actinides Studied with DANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
J. L. Ullmann, B. Baramsai, T. A. Bredeweg, A. J. Couture, R. C. Haight,
M. Jandel, T. Kawano, A. L. Keksis, S. Mosby, J. M. O’Donnell,
C. Prokop, R. S. Rundberg, G. Rusev, D. J. Vieira, C. Walker,
J. B. Wilhelmy, C.-Y. Wu, J. A. Becker, A. Chyzch, R. A. Henderson,
G. E. Mitchell, and M. Krticka
Contents
Part III Optical Models
Linking Nuclear Reactions and Nuclear Structure to Study Exotic
Nuclei Using the Dispersive Optical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
W. H. Dickhoff
Microscopic Optical Potential from Chiral Effective Field Theory . . . . . . . . 91
T. R. Whitehead, Y. Lim, and J. W. Holt
Part IV Level Densities
Nuclear Level Densities: From Empirical Models to Microscopic
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Y. Alhassid
Problem of Level Densities in Compound Nuclear Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Alexander Voinov
Nuclear Shell Model and Level Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Vladimir Zelevinsky and Sofia Karampagia
Constraining Level Densities Using Spectral Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Gustavo P. A. Nobre, David A. Brown, and Michal W. Herman
Rotational Enhancement Factor for Nuclear Level Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
S. M. Grimes
Role of Fluctuations on the Pairing Properties of Nuclei in the
Random Spacing Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
M. A. A. Mamun, C. Constantinou, and M. Prakash
Part V Gamma-Ray Strength Functions
Gamma Strength Functions and the Brink-Axel Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Peter von Neumann-Cosel
γ-Ray Strength Functions and GDR Cross Sections in the IAEA
Photonuclear Data Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
H. Utsunomiya, I. Gheorghe, D. M. Filipescu, K. Stopani, S. Belyshev,
T. Renstrøm, G. M. Tveten, G. Fan, H. Wang, S. Goriely, Y.-W. Lui,
T. Ari-izumi, S. Miyamoto, V. Varlamov, B. Ishkhanov, A. C. Larsen,
and S. Siem
Neutron Capture on Actinides Studied with DANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
J. L. Ullmann, B. Baramsai, T. A. Bredeweg, A. J. Couture, R. C. Haight,
M. Jandel, T. Kawano, A. L. Keksis, S. Mosby, J. M. O’Donnell,
C. Prokop, R. S. Rundberg, G. Rusev, D. J. Vieira, C. Walker,
J. B. Wilhelmy, C.-Y. Wu, J. A. Becker, A. Chyzch, R. A. Henderson,
G. E. Mitchell, and M. Krticka