Abstract
The paper reports a study of certain induced radioactivities associated with potassium. It is shown that the half-life of is 12.4±0.2 hours. In addition to the well-established deuteron and slow neutron reactions is also formed by the reactions and . This last appears to have a relatively small probability. No evidence was found for the reaction . Fast neutron irradiation of potassium yields active chlorine and by the transmutations ; . There was no indication of the presence of in the activated samples. Alpha-particle bombardment of chlorine yields according to the reaction . This isotope of potassium decays with a half-life of ± minutes, emitting positrons having a maximum energy of about 2 Mev and gamma-rays which may be annihilation radiation only. is also obtained by deuteron bombardment of calcium thus: .
- Received 3 May 1937
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.51.1033
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