QUANTITATIVE THEORY OF NUCLEAR EVAPORATION AND ITS RELATION TO NUCLEAR MATTER

Technical Report · Thu Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1963

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4699073· OSTI ID:4699073

Beard, D B; McLellan, A

>The energy level densities of nucleons in a diffuse nuclear well are calculated using an Eckart-Bethe (WoodsSaxon) potential and are shown to be a more sensitive function of energy than the calculated densities of nucleons in a square well having the same volume. The particle spectra for 14-Mev inelastically scattered neutrons are computed including multiple neutron emission and are shown to fit experimentally observed spectra well within the experimental error. This fit is obtained with no parameter fitting of theoretically undetermined constants. Formulas are derived by which experimentally determined particle spectra from highly excited nuclei may be reduced to single particle emission spectra. These, in turn, are interpreted in terms of the diffuseness of the nuclear well at high excitation energies so as to yield the compressibility of nuclear matter, 28 references. (auth)

• Research Organization: California. Univ., Davis
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AT(11-1)-34
• NSA Number: NSA-17-031393
• OSTI ID: 4699073
• Report Number(s): CONF-46-6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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