Abstract
Techniques are described for observing low energy (15-60 kev) "threshold" neutrons in the presence of fast neutrons. The threshold of the reaction was found to be 1020.3 kev, which gives a -value of the reaction equal to - 764.7 kev and a neutron-hydrogen mass difference of 783.2 kev. Interpretation of data near the threshold of the reaction gives indication of a level in near 18.90 Mev. Three neutron thresholds have been observed in the reaction at deuteron energies of 920, 985, and 1916 kev. The corresponding -values are -752, -805, and -1566 kev; these give excited states in at 5.110, 5.163, and 5.924 Mev. The threshold of the reaction was determined to be 1836 kev, giving a value of -1631 kev and a mass of equal to 17.007506.
- Received 11 June 1951
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.83.1091
©1951 American Physical Society