Abstract
Cylindrical and spherical electrostatic analyzers have been used to measure the ratio of the threshold proton energy for the reaction to the of the reaction. This ratio was found to be 1.3734±0.0007. The energy of the gamma ray from has been compared earlier by Hedgran and Lind to other gamma rays whose energies have been measured absolutely by either the curved crystal spectrometer method (-Caltech) or proton-moment calibrated magnetic field (-Lindstrom et al.). The present data fix the threshold as 1881.4±1.1 kev in terms of the Caltech value for the gamma, or as 1879.7±1.1 kev in terms of the Lindstrom et al. value for a gamma ray. The former value is in better agreement with currently used nuclear energy scales.
- Received 2 February 1954
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.94.947
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