Abstract
The scattering of neutrons in has been investigated for neutrons with energies of from 16 to 23.4 Mev with a helium-filled ionization chamber. A pronounced resonance has been found at a neutron energy of 22.15±0.12 Mev. This resonance corresponds to an excitation energy in of 16.72±0.10 Mev which is the same excitation energy as that obtained for the maximum in the cross section. The neutron scattering experiments indicate that the level in has a width of about 100 kev which is much narrower than the ground state of . This state in probably has angular momentum and parity of and is made up of two neutrons and a proton in the shell and one proton and one neutron in the shell. Such a configuration would explain the large deuteron reduced width of the reaction and the small neutron width.
- Received 24 February 1959
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.115.398
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