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Thermal properties of Fe-54

D. J. Dean, S. E. Koonin, K. Langanke, P. B. Radha, Y. Alhassid

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9405005

Abstract

We study the thermal properties of Fe-54 with the Brown-Richter interaction in the complete 1p0f model space. Monte Carlo calculations show a peak in the heat capacity and rapid increases in both the moment of inertia and M1 strength near a temperature of 1.1 MeV that are associated with the vanishing of proton-proton and neutron-neutron monopole pair correlations; neutron-proton correlations persist to higher temperatures. Our results are consistent with a Fermi gas level density whose back-shift vanishes with increasing temperature.

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