Elastic Scattering of Protons and Neutrons by Helium

D. C. Dodder and J. L. Gammel
Phys. Rev. 88, 520 – Published 1 November 1952
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Abstract

Proton-alpha elastic scattering experiments at 5.81 and 9.48 Mev are analyzed in terms of phase shifts, and the results, together with earlier ones at lower energies, are used to compute the logarithmic derivatives of the wave functions at a radius of 2.9×1013 cm. These logarithmic derivaties, for P12 and P32 states, are found to be linear functions of the energy. From the behavior of the logarithmic derivatives the widths and positions of the P12 and P32 energy levels are determined, the most striking results being the large splitting of the two levels and the very broad width of the P12 level. These results are compared with neutron-alpha experiments and are found to be in sufficiently good agreement to support the conclusions about the P12 level which differ from those previously expected. Small negative D wave phase shifts are found in the proton-alpha experiments which also show evidence of an inverted doublet spin-orbit splitting.

  • Received 18 July 1952

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.88.520

©1952 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

D. C. Dodder and J. L. Gammel

  • University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Vol. 88, Iss. 3 — November 1952

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