Radioactivity in Silver Induced by Fast Neutrons
- 15 January 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 53 (2), 116-123
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.53.116
Abstract
Radioactive silver, , has been produced by fast neutron bombardment of and . A half-life period of 3.2 hours is observed with the upper limit of the electron beta-ray spectrum at 2.2 Mev. Gamma-rays are also emitted, the number per beta-ray is about four. The radioactive silver isomer, , produced by fast neutron bombardment of , has a positron beta-ray spectrum upper limit of 1.9 Mev and an electron beta-ray spectrum upper limit of 1.3 Mev. The half-life periods are respectively 24.5 min. and 8.2 days. The former emits no gamma-rays other than the annihilation radiation. The latter emits a complex gamma-ray spectrum. The number of gamma-rays per beta-ray is about 35. Nuclear electron capture is offered to explain this anomalously high gamma to beta ratio. A total of twenty nuclear reactions all leading to the production of radioactive silver have been observed.
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