Abstract
The low-energy dipole strength distributions in Ho-165 and Tm-169 have
been studied in nuclear resonance fluorescence experiments at the
S-DALINAC utilizing a Euroball Cluster detector. In the energy interval
between 2.5 and 4.0 MeV, where the scissors mode is expected, 35 ground
state transitions could be observed in Ho-165 and 53 in Tm-169. Assuming
M1 character for all these transitions corresponds to Sigma B(M1) up
arrow= 1.54(23) mu(N)(2) and Sigma B(M1) up arrow= 2.15(63) mu(N)(2) for
Ho-165 and Tm-169, respectively. A statistical analysis is applied to
the measured spectra which is capable of reconstructing the complete
strength, including contributions of transitions below the observation
limit, with the ratio between M1 and E1 excitations and their total
strengths taken as an average over the even-mass neighbours. This
results in summed M1 transition strengths of Sigma B(M1) up arrow=
3.54(-0.95)(+0.75) mu(N)(2) (Ho-165) and Sigma B(M1) up arrow=
3.36(-0.57)(+1.00) mu(N)(2) (Tm-169). The large variations of the summed
dipole strength and the fragmentation in other deformed odd-mass nuclei
can be reproduced by the same statistical ansatz. The total low-lying M1
strength in heavy deformed odd-mass nuclei is in agreement with the
findings in the neighbouring even-mass nuclides as well as with sum-rule
predictions. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.
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