ANGULAR CORRELATION WITH STATISTICAL REACTION THEORY

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1961 · Helvetica Physica Acta (Switzerland)

OSTI ID:4839877

Sheldon, E

Angular correlation theory was applied to compound nucleus formation by numerical computations of low-energy inelastic scattering on Fe/sup 56/ at E/sub p/ =4.22 Mev and E/sub n/ = 2.00 Mev. As simplifying hypotheses in the calculations, it is assumed that the decay of the compound nucleus causes population of only the first excited state of the residual nucleus and that the energy spread of the beam of incident particles is suffdciently wide to cause excitation of many compound nucleus states, whose respective wave functions have random ielative phases over which averages are taken. From the calculated correlation functions, a correlation surface is constructed as a contour representation of equivalued W's as a function of the emission angles. In the appendix expressions for the angular correlation of three nuclear radiations are derived, and the linear polarization of a 0.845-Mev pure E2 gamma from Fe/sup 56/(p,p' gamma ) or (n,n' gamma ) for M = 90 deg is determined. (J.S.R.)

• Research Organization: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
• NSA Number: NSA-16-019774
• OSTI ID: 4839877
• Journal Information: Helvetica Physica Acta (Switzerland), Journal Name: Helvetica Physica Acta (Switzerland) Vol. Vol: 34; ISSN HPACA
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
BEAMS
COMPOUND NUCLEI
DECAY
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY RANGE
EXCITATION
GAMMA RADIATION
IRON 56
NEUTRON BEAMS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUMERICALS
PHYSICS
POLARIZATION
PROTON BEAMS
QUANTUM MECHANICS
REACTION KINETICS
SCATTERING
STATISTICS