Emission of Alpha Particles from Nuclei Having Large Angular Momenta
- 20 May 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 157 (4), 823-831
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.157.823
Abstract
The statistical theory of nuclear de-excitation predicts -particle energy spectra having important features that were missed in earlier, less complete calculations. To a good approximation, the spectrum is composed of three qualitatively different subspectra. For compound nuclei formed by + at 90 MeV (lab), these subspectra have their respective maxima at 17, 12, and 7.5 MeV. The 7.5-MeV subspectrum should be resolvable into a group of sharp lines. The crucial roles of the lowest excited state at every angular momentum (the yrast levels), and of the competition with neutron and with dipole and quadrupole -ray emission, are stressed. Simple formulas are derived for estimating the energies at the maxima of the two lowest-energy subspectra. Since the -particle subspectra are predictions of the most widely used version of the statistical model of nuclear de-excitation, a failure to observe them would be important. If they are observed, the experimental data should provide information about several nuclear properties heretofore inaccessible.
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