  The nuclear level density and the gamma-ray strength function have been
determined for 43Sc in the energy range up to 2 MeV below the neutron
separation energy using the Oslo method with the 46Ti(p,alpha)43Sc reaction. A
comparison to 45Sc shows that the level density of 43Sc is smaller by an
approximately constant factor of two. This behaviour is well reproduced in a
microscopical/combinatorial model calculation. The gamma-ray strength function
is showing an increase at low gamma-ray energies, a feature which has been
observed in several nuclei but which still awaits theoretical explanation.
