Extraction of level density and γ strength function from primary γ spectra

Ws present a new iterative procedure to extract the level density and the gamma strength function from primary gamma spectra for energies close up to the neutron binding energy. The procedure is tested on simulated spectra and on data from the Yb-123(He-3.x)Yb-122 reaction. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.