Nomograms Used in Analysis of Data in the Reaction Li6(n,α)H3

Abstract

Several nomograms and similar computational devices have been found useful in the analysis and interpretation of data from the reaction Li⁶(n,α)H³ in photographic emulsions. Three of these are discussed here: (1) a slide rule to determine from measurements on a track with the triton in a small forward cone, what the track length would have been if the triton had gone exactly forward; (2) a nomogram to determine the true alpha‐triton angle from its measured projection in the plane of the emulsion; (3) a device for determining, from measurements on a track, the angle between the emulsion and the incident neutron giving rise to the track.