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INDEPENDENT YIELDS OF ISOMERIC PAIRS IN NUCLEAR REACTIONS (thesis)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4243268· OSTI ID:4243268
The Cd/sup 115m/ and Cd/sup 115/ isomers produced in 12- to 340Mev proton bombardments of U/sup 238/ were isolated by radiochemical methods. The cumulative yield ratios of Cd/sup 115/Cd/sup 115m/Cd/ were determined. In the 45- Mev heliumion flssion of uranium, an estimation of the independentyield ratio of Pm/sup 148/ (5.3-day) to Pm/sup 148/ (43-day) was made. In the deuteron fission of uranium at about 20 Mevs an estimate of the independent-yield ratio of Nb/sup 95m/ to the total niobium of mass 95 was made. A literature survey on experimental isomer ratios from fission was made. The yield ratio of Sc/sup 44// Sc/sup 44/ was measured in Sc/sup 45/ ( alpha , alpha n)Sc/sup 44/ reactions with helium ions of energies between 20 and 43 Mev and at 320 Mev. The Sc/sup 44m/Sc/ sup 44/ ratio was measured in K/sup 41/( alpha ,n)Sc/sup 44/ reactions at 10 and 43 Mev. The compound-nucleus model was used to calcalate the Sc/sup 44m/Sc/sup 44/ ratios produced by the reactions /sup n44/ and Sc/sup 45/(p,pn)Sc/sup 44/ at energies 0.4 Mev above threshold. Agreement between the experimental and calculated Sc/sup 44m/Sc/sup 44/ ratio was obtained for the K/sup 41/(l0-Mev alpha ,n)Sc/sup 44/ reaction. A classical knock-on model was used to calculate the Sc/sup 44m/Sc/sup 44/ ratio from a Sc/sup 45/( alpha , alpha ,n)Sc/sup 44/ or reaction in which the charged particle strikes a neutron and both particles go out. This calculated isomer ratio agreed fairly well with the experimental isomer ratio for 320-Mev helium ions which are assumed to have such a small wave length that the projectile interacts classically with only one nucleon. It is assumed that the K/sup 41/(43-Mev alpha ,n)Sc/sup 44/ and the Sc/sup 45/( alpha , alpha n)Sc/sup 44/ reactio ns in the 20- to 43-Mev energy range occur by means of a direct-interaction mechanism. (auth)
Research Organization:
University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
NSA Number:
NSA-13-014786
OSTI ID:
4243268
Report Number(s):
UCRL-8710
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English