Speaker
Aaina Thapa
(Lawrence Livermore national Laboratory)
Description
The surrogate reaction method offers a powerful alternative to direct measurements of compound nuclear reaction cross sections but relies critically on theory developments for modeling the surrogate reaction used to populate the compound nucleus of interest. In this talk, I will present recent theoretical extensions for proton inelastic scattering and (d,p) surrogate reactions. This includes connecting microscopic structure of the compound nucleus to surrogate reaction theory, and examining the role of Porter-Thomas fluctuations in surrogate reaction modeling. Microscopic structure theory calculations of Pygmy and toroidal dipole resonances, relevant to E1 gamma-ray strength functions, will also be discussed.
Author
Aaina Thapa
(Lawrence Livermore national Laboratory)