Abstract
Cross-section ratios of isomeric nuclides produced in the reactions , , , , , and are reported for the -particle energy range from reaction threshold to 42 MeV. Recoil ranges of products were also determined. Range information was used to help establish the bombarding-energy region in which a particular reaction was likely to be compound-nuclear. The ratio of cross sections, high-spin product to low-spin product, was found to increase initially as the bombarding energy increased. In the three () reactions, the ratio goes through a maximum and decreases. The decreasing region is consistent with the onset of a process in which the product nucleus does not have all of the momentum of the incident particle. In the reaction the cross-section ratio also goes through a maximum, but the range measurements in this energy region suggest that in only a small fraction of events is the momentum transfer much less than complete. Both () reactions show a monotonic increase in the cross-section ratio with increasing -particle energy. Excitation functions of isomeric pairs indicate a shift to higher bombarding energy for the nuclide of higher spin.
- Received 29 March 1965
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.139.B886
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