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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 330, Issue 1, 29 October 1979, Pages 1-14
Nuclear Physics A

Total cross sections for the 6Li(n, α)3H reaction between 2 and 10 MeV

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Abstract

Precise measurements of the 6Li(n, α)3H cross section between 2.16 and 9.66 MeV have been made. The reactions are observed in a 6Lil(Eu) scintillator which serves simultaneously both as a target and a detector of the charged particle reaction products. Calculations show the importance of accounting for the events produced by neutrons slowed down in a 6Lil(Eu) scintillator as well as by neutrons backscattered from the light guide. Evidence is found of the formation of the Jπ = 32 state at an excitation energy of 10.25 MeV in 7Li.

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Work supported in part by the US Department of Energy.

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