Abstract
The pygmy dipole resonance has been studied in the proton-magic nucleus
Sn-124 with the (alpha, alpha'gamma) coincidence method at E-alpha = 136
MeV. The comparison with results of photon-scattering experiments
reveals a splitting into two components with different structure: one
group of states which is excited in (alpha, alpha'gamma) as well as in
(gamma, gamma') reactions and a group of states at higher energies which
is only excited in (gamma, gamma') reactions. Calculations with the
self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle time-blocking approximation
and the quasiparticle phonon model are in qualitative agreement with the
experimental results and predict a low-lying isoscalar component
dominated by neutron-skin oscillations and a higher-lying more isovector
component on the tail of the giant dipole resonance.
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