Results of Stripping Analysis of the ReactionK39(d, p)K40

Abstract

The MIT-ONR electrostatic generator and the broad-range spectrograph have been used to study the energies and angular distributions of protons emitted from a KI target bombarded with 6-Mev deuterons. Excitation energies are given for fifty-two levels in ${\mathrm{K}}^{40}$. Orbital angular momenta of captured neutrons in the stripping process are given for thirty-eight of these excited levels and for the ground state. The reaction energy for the ground-state transition has been measured as $Q=5.569\mathrm{}\pm 0.010$ Mev.