γ-ray strength function method and its application to 107Pd

The gamma-ray strength function method is devised to indirectly determine radiative neutron capture cross sections for radioactive nuclei. This method is applied here to the Pd-107 (T-1/2 = 6.5 x 10(6) yr) case. Photoneutron cross sections were measured for Pd-105,Pd-106,Pd-108 near neutron threshold with quasimonochromatic laser-Compton-scattering gamma-ray beams. These photoneutron cross sections as well as the reverse radiative neutron capture cross sections for Pd-104,Pd-105 are used to provide constraints on the Pd-107(n,gamma)Pd-108 cross section.