Isomeric Ratio of the $^{181}\rm{Ta}(\gamma,3n)^{178m,g}\rm{Ta}$ Reaction Products at Energy $E_{\rm{\gamma max}}$ up to 95 MeV

• Main Authors: Deiev, O. S, Timchenko, I. S, Olejnik, S. N, Kushnir, V. A, Mytrochenko, V. V, Perezhogin, S. A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 03.08.2021
• Subjects: Physics - High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics - Nuclear Experiment
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.01635

The photoneutron reaction $^{181}\rm{Ta}(\gamma,3n)^{178m,g}\rm{Ta}$ was investigated with the beam from the NSC KIPT electron linear accelerator LUE-40. The measurements were performed using the residual $\gamma$-activity method. The bremsstrahlung flux-averaged cross-sections $\langle{\sigma(E_{\rm{\gamma max}})}\rangle$, $\langle{\sigma(E_{\rm{\gamma max}})}\rangle_{\rm{m}}$, $\langle{\sigma(E_{\rm{\gamma max}})}\rangle_{\rm{g}}$ and the isomeric ratio of the reaction products $d(E_{\rm{\gamma max}})$ have been measured. Theoretical values of averaged cross-sections and isomeric ratio were calculated using partial cross-sections from the TALYS1.95 code for different level density models $LD$ 1-6. The obtained experimental $d(E_{\rm{\gamma max}})$ agree with the literature data, but differ from the theoretical values in absolute magnitude and the behavior of the energy dependence. A comparison of the found averaged cross-sections with the calculated ones showed the best agreement for the case of the $LD$ 5 model.