# Energy dependence of the isomeric cross section ratio in the 58Ni(𝑛,𝑝)⁵⁸Com,g reactions

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work was supported in part by the Hungarian Research Found (Contract No. T 025024), the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Contract Nos. 7687/R0 and 8205), the International Science and Technology Center (Project No. 176), and the Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology Grant No. 3028GR/B10.

TABLE I. Measured cross sections for the <sup>58</sup>Ni$`(n,p)^{58}`$Co and <sup>58</sup>Ni$`(n,p)^{58}`$Co<sup>m</sup> reactions, and measured and deduced isomeric cross section ratios for the former reaction.   

| $`Neutron`$ | Measured | Measured | Measured | Deduced |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $`energy`$ | $`\sigma (n,p)`$ | $`\sigma _m`$ | $`\sigma _m/(\sigma _g+\sigma _m)`$ | |
| $`(MeV)`$ | (mb) | (mb) |  |  |
| $`2.14`$ |  | 19.2$`\pm `$1.3 | 0.260$`\pm `$0.014 |  |
| $`2.21`$ |  |  | 0.259$`\pm `$0.011 |  |
| $`2.23`$ |  |  | 0.274$`\pm `$0.026 |  |
| $`2.30`$ |  | 20.6$`\pm `$1.4 | 0.234$`\pm `$0.010 |  |
| $`2.43`$ |  |  | 0.254$`\pm `$0.012 |  |
| $`2.59`$ |  |  | 0.277$`\pm `$0.011 |  |
| $`2.60`$ |  | 29.1$`\pm `$2.0 |  |  |
| $`2.74`$ |  | 41.0$`\pm `$3.0 | 0.289$`\pm `$0.012 |  |
| $`2.83`$ |  |  | 0.269$`\pm `$0.008 |  |
| $`2.84`$ |  |  | 0.278$`\pm `$0.009 |  |
| $`2.94`$ |  | 56.3$`\pm `$3.5 | 0.276$`\pm `$0.011 |  |
| $`10.3`$ |  |  | 0.445$`\pm `$0.019 |  |
| $`12.3`$ |  |  | 0.452$`\pm `$0.020 |  |
| $`13.4`$ |  |  | 0.545$`\pm `$0.004 |  |
| $`13.56`$ | 413.6$`\pm `$13.2 | 234$`\pm `$9 |  | 0.566$`\pm `$0.028 |
| $`13.6`$ |  |  | 0.536$`\pm `$0.004 |  |
| $`13.74`$ | 383.4$`\pm `$16.1 | 218$`\pm `$9 |  | 0.569$`\pm `$0.034 |
| $`13.96`$ | 359.1$`\pm `$17.2 | 197$`\pm `$8 |  | 0.549$`\pm `$0.035 |
| $`14.03`$ |  |  | 0.545$`\pm `$0.007 |  |
| $`14.05`$ |  |  | 0.552$`\pm `$0.005 |  |
| $`14.19`$ | 329.9$`\pm `$12.8 | 182$`\pm `$8 |  | 0.552$`\pm `$0.032 |
| $`14.42`$ | 313.8$`\pm `$10.8 | 170$`\pm `$7 |  | 0.542$`\pm `$0.029 |
| $`14.48`$ |  |  | 0.573$`\pm `$0.012 |  |
| $`14.61`$ | 292.3$`\pm `$14.0 | 173$`\pm `$11 |  | 0.592$`\pm `$0.047 |
| $`14.68`$ |  |  | 0.556$`\pm `$0.006 |  |
| $`14.78`$ | 275.9$`\pm `$11.8 | 150$`\pm `$6 |  | 0.544$`\pm `$0.032 |
| $`14.88`$ |  |  | 0.573$`\pm `$0.005 |  |

TABLE II. The number of discrete levels $`N_d`$ up to excitation energy $`E_d`$ used in Hauser–Feshbach calculations, taken from the corresponding references, and the low–lying levels as well as s–wave nucleon–resonance spacings $`\overline{D}_{exp}`$ in the nucleon energy range $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$E above the corresponding binding energy B<sub>n</sub>  used to obtain the BSFG parameters, i.e. the level–density parameter a, the ratio of the nuclear moment of inertia $`I/I_r`$, and the ground–state shift $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$.   

| Nucleus | $`N_d`$ | $`E_d`$ | Ref. | Fitted level and resonance data | | | | $`a`$ | $`I/I_r`$ | $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  | (MeV) |  | $`N_d`$ | $`E_d`$ | $`B_n+\frac{\mathrm{\Delta }E}{2}`$ | $`\overline{D}_{exp}`$ | $`(MeV^1)`$ |  | $`(MeV)`$ |
|  |  |  |  |  | (MeV) | $`(MeV)`$ | (keV) |  |  |  |
| <sup>59</sup>Ni | $`13`$ | 1.948 |  | $`20`$ | 2.48 | $`9.33`$ | 12.5$`\pm 0.9^a`$ | $`6.25`$ | 1.0 | $`1.20`$ |
| <sup>58</sup>Ni | $`28`$ | 4.475 |  | $`32`$ | 4.58 |  |  | $`6.00`$ | 1.0 | $`0.28`$ |
| <sup>58</sup>Co | $`28`$ | 1.555 |  | $`28`$ | 1.56 |  |  | $`6.60`$ | 1.0 | $`2.37`$ |
| <sup>58</sup>Co | $`28`$ | 1.555 |  | $`28`$ | 1.56 |  |  | $`6.11`$ | 0.5 | $`2.40`$ |
| <sup>55</sup>Fe | $`16`$ | 2.600 |  | $`16`$ | 2.60 | $`9.55`$ | 18.0$`\pm 2.4^a`$ | $`5.60`$ | 1.0 | $`1.30`$ |

<sup>a</sup>Reference .

## Figure Captions

FIG. 1. Comparison of the measured and calculated excitation functions and isomeric cross section ratios for the <sup>58</sup>Ni$`(n,p)^{58}`$Co<sup>m,g</sup> and <sup>59</sup>Co$`(n,2n)^{58}`$Co<sup>m,g</sup> reactions. The calculated cross-section curves (c),(d) were obtained by using the fitted value of the branching ratio for the 52.8 keV$``$24.9 keV transition (solid curves), the isomeric cross-section ratios (a),(b) were found by using also the evaluated branching-ratio  (dotted curves), using only the two levels (dashed-dotted curves), as well as the fitted branching-ratio but considering two assigned 4<sup>+</sup> levels populating either the g.s. (lower dashed curves) or the isomeric state (higher dashed curves). For the experimental data see Refs. .

FIG. 2. (a) Partial cross sections for the compound nucleus formation versus the corresponding total angular momentum $`J_{CN}`$, at the given incident energies of neutrons on the target nucleus <sup>58</sup>Ni. (b) The yrast plot for the residual nucleus <sup>58</sup>Co, of the adopted discrete levels  including the spin assignment ($`+`$), while in the opposite case the spin values considered in the present calculations are additionally marked if the corresponding level has an adopted decay scheme ($`\times `$) or only the excitation energy ($``$); the yrast lines showed only for orientation correspond  to the effective excitation energies obtained by using the BSFG parameters in Table II, and the nuclear moment of inertia for a rigid body $`I_r`$ (dashed curve) and respectively one-half of $`I_r`$ (dotted curve) with a reduced radius $`r_0`$=1.25 fm.

FIG. 3. The same as Fig. 1(a), except the calculated values are obtained by using (a) 28 discrete levels up to the excitation energy $`E^{}`$=4.475 MeV of the nucleus <sup>58</sup>Ni, while for the nucleus <sup>58</sup>Co are used either 28 discrete levels  (solid curve) or 29 levels  (dashed curve) up to $`E^{}`$=1.555 MeV, 3 discrete levels up to $`E^{}`$=0.053 MeV (dotted curve), or 2 discrete levels up to $`E^{}`$=0.025 MeV (dashed-dotted curve), and (b) only 2 discrete levels up to $`E^{}`$=0.025 MeV for the nucleus <sup>58</sup>Co while for the nucleus <sup>58</sup>Ni are used either 28 levels up to $`E^{}`$=4.475 MeV (solid curve), only g.s. (dashed curve), 2 levels up to $`E^{}`$=1.454 MeV (dashed-dotted curve), or 4 levels up to $`E^{}`$=2.776 MeV (dotted curve).