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Physics Letters B

Volume 251, Issue 1, 8 November 1990, Pages 11-16
Physics Letters B

Thermal n-d radiative capture

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Abstract

The impulse-approximation and pion-exchange current contributions to the radiative capture of thermal neutrons by deuterium have been calculated using initial- and final-state wave functions generated by solving the configuration-space Faddeev equations for several nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-nucleon-plus-three-body-force hamiltonian models. Numerical results are compared with previously published total cross section data and with recent measurements of the M1 photon polarization and the spin-quartet capture fraction.

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