Elsevier

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 470, Issue 2, 24 August 1987, Pages 339-348
Nuclear Physics A

The mechanism of the 7Li(d, 2α)n reaction from Ed = 3 to 15 MeV

https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(87)90006-6Get rights and content

Abstract

The 7Li(d, 2α)n reaction proceeds almost entirely through excitation and sequential decay of the 16.63 and 16.92 MeV levels in 8Be, for incident energies 1 to 13 MeV above their threshold. The energy dependence for forming these levels with the neutron emitted at 0° is approximately that predicted assuming the neutron is a spectator from the incident deuteron. None of the individual spectra, the angular dependence of the cross section at fixed Ed, or the bombarding-energy-dependence of the cross section for forming the levels is consistent with the involvement of a spectator neutron from the 7Li target.

References (8)

  • J. Kasagi

    Nucl. Phys.

    (1975)
  • F. Ajzenberg-Selove

    Nucl. Phys.

    (1979)
  • J.B. Marion

    Phys. Lett.

    (1965)
  • M.J. Moravcsik

    Nucl. Phys.

    (1958)
There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

Cited by (0)

Research supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants PHY 85-21042, PHY 84-21302, PHY 82-03699, and PHY 83-04886.

1

Present address: Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

2

Present address: Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

3

Present address: Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.

4

Present address: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

5

Present address: Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

View full text