1206.6335 (Cem Özen et al.)

Nuclear Level Density of ${}^{161}$Dy in the Shell Model Monte Carlo
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Cem Özen, Yoram Alhassid, Hitoshi Nakada

We extend the shell-model Monte Carlo applications to the rare-earth region to include the odd-even nucleus ${}^{161}$Dy. The projection on an odd number of particles leads to a sign problem at low temperatures making it impractical to extract the ground-state energy in direct calculations. We use level counting data at low energies and neutron resonance data to extract the shell model ground-state energy to good precision. We then calculate the level density of ${}^{161}$Dy and find it in very good agreement with the level density extracted from experimental data.

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