Isospin Character of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in {sup 124}Sn
The pygmy dipole resonance has been studied in the proton-magic nucleus {sup 124}Sn with the ({alpha}, {alpha}{sup '{gamma}}) coincidence method at E{sub {alpha}=}136 MeV. The comparison with results of photon-scattering experiments reveals a splitting into two components with different structure: one group of states which is excited in ({alpha}, {alpha}{sup '{gamma}}) as well as in ({gamma}, {gamma}{sup '}) reactions and a group of states at higher energies which is only excited in ({gamma}, {gamma}{sup '}) reactions. Calculations with the self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle time-blocking approximation and the quasiparticle phonon model are in qualitative agreement with the experimental results and predict a low-lying isoscalar component dominated by neutron-skin oscillations and a higher-lying more isovector component on the tail of the giant dipole resonance.