Electric and magnetic dipole strength in Fe54

The dipole strength of the N = 28 closed-shell nuclide Fe-54 was studied in photon-scattering experiments using bremsstrahlung produced with electron beams of kinetic energies of 7.5 and 13.9 MeV at the gamma ELBE facility as well as using quasimonoenergetic and linearly polarized photon beams of 26 different energies within the range from 5.5 to 11.4 MeV at the HI gamma S facility. About 100 J = 1 states were newly identified, out of them 19 with 1(+) and 30 with 1(-) assignments. The quasicontinuum of unresolved transitions was included in the analysis of the spectra and the intensities of branching transitions were estimated on the basis of simulations of statistical gamma-ray cascades. As a result, the photoabsorption cross section up to the neutron-separation energy was determined and compared with predictions of the statistical reaction model. The experimental M1 strengths from resolved 1(+) states are compared with results of large-scale shell-model calculations.