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Photodisintegration of the deuteron, 1982

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5591122
Measurements of the deuteron's photodisintegration cross section made over a thirty year time span are evaluated in terms of the cross section for E1 and M1 transitions calculated in the effective range approximation. The energy range covered is from threshold to 44 MeV. Data that do not depend on a knowledge of a bremsstrahlung spectrum's intensity or spectral distribution are shown to be described very well by the effective-range expressions. The values of the deuteron's electric polarizability is shown to be in fair agreement with a value derived from the observed deviation from Rutherford scattering of deuterons by 208Pb. A comparison is made of the experimental data with three recent calculations of the photodisintegration cross section.
Research Organization:
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC (USA). Radiation Physics Div.
OSTI ID:
5591122
Report Number(s):
PB-83-202531; NBSIR-83-2647
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English