Abstract
The reactions , and , have been studied in the 100-kev to 800-kev region of bombarding energy. In the case of , the proton energy was measured with a scintillation spectrometer; from this measurement, the energy of breakup of into a neutron and an particle was found to be 0.95±0.07 Mev. At a bombarding energy of 360 kev, the deuterons from the were found to be isotropic in the center-of-mass system. The spectrum of protons from the three-body breakup, , , was found to be flat within experimental error from 2 to 8 Mev. Competitions among the various modes of decay of the compound nucleus of do not vary beyond an experimental uncertainty of ±2 percent from 200-kev to 600-kev bombarding energy. The shape of the total cross-section curve, measured from 100 kev to 800 kev, appears to indicate a nonresonant behavior, similar to the case of the reaction.
- Received 29 June 1953
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.92.383
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