Total and partial photoneutron cross sections for Pb isotopes

Kondo, Takeo*; Utsunomiya, Hiroaki*; Goriely, S.*; Daoutidis, I.*; Iwamoto, Chihiro*; Akimune, Hidetoshi*; Okamoto, Akiyuki*; Yamagata, Tamio*; Kamata, Masaki*; Ito, Osamu*; Toyokawa, Hiroyuki*; Lui, Y.-W.*; Harada, Hideo   ; Kitatani, Fumito  ; Hilaire, S.*; Koning, A. J.*

Using quasi-monochromatic laser-Compton scattering rays, total photoneutron cross sections were measured for Pb near neutron threshold with a high-efficiency 4 neutron detector. Partial 1 and 1 photoneutron cross sections along with total cross sections were determined for Pb at four energies near threshold by measuring anisotropies in photoneutron emission with linearly-polarized rays. The 1 strength dominates over the 1 strength in the neutron channel where 1 photoneutron cross sections show extra strength of the pygmy dipole resonance in Pb near the neutron threshold corresponding to 0.32-0.42% of the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum rule. Several units of B(1) strength were observed in Pb just above neutron threshold, which correspond to an 1 cross section less than 10% of the total photoneutron cross section.