Possibility of Experimental Determination of Reliable Parameters of the Compound-State Gamma-Decay and Some Errors of Analysis: Mo-96 as an Example

TL;DR

This paper investigates how two-step nuclear reactions can more reliably determine level density and radiative strength functions in complex nuclei, reducing systematic errors compared to one-step reactions.

Contribution

It demonstrates that using two-step reactions significantly decreases systematic errors in measuring nuclear parameters, enhancing data reliability.

Findings

Two-step reactions reduce systematic errors in parameter determination.

Potential for more accurate nuclear data with two-step reactions.

Analysis of Mo-96 as a case study.

Abstract

Comparison between potential possibilities and inevitable systematic errors of one- and two-step reactions for obtaining of maximum reliable data on level density and radiative strength functions after decay of excited levels of complicated nuclei has been performed. It was shown that the use for this aim of two-step reactions instead of one-step reactions provides for potential possibility to decrease systematical errors of mentioned nuclear parameters, as minimum, by several times.