Isobaric analog resonances

APR 01, 1969

These highly excited compound nuclear states, observed in proton scattering from heavy nuclei, have useful applications in nuclear spectroscopy.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035527

W. Rory Coker

C. Fred Moore

WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, exploitation of isobaric analog resonances to obtain detailed information concerning the structure of atomic nuclei has become a standard, if somewhat mysterious, technique in the repertoire of experimental nuclear physicists. The precise nature and structure of isobaric analog resonances in nuclei are apparently not well understood by anyone at the present time, because the nuclear configurations involved are exceedingly complicated. Fortunately, however, it is easy to understand many of the properties of analog resonances that make them valuable to experimentalists and a topic of lively interest and sometimes controversy among students of nuclear structure.

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More about the Authors

W. Rory Coker. Nuclear Studies, University of Texas.

C. Fred Moore. Nuclear Studies, University of Texas.