Abstract
The breakup of into two particles has been observed in the reaction . A self-supporting foil of was bombarded with deuterons from the Argonne tandem generator. The pairs of nuclei were detected by two silicon semiconductor counters placed at the appropriate pair of angles defined by the reaction kinetics. Angular distributions were measured for and were found to be peaked at about 40° (and, by symmetry, at 140°). The reaction may be understood in terms of a direct process. A distorted-wave Born-approximation calculation gives a good fit to the data when reasonable values for the well parameters are assumed.
- Received 22 November 1963
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.134.B110
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