Accurate Measurements of the Nuclear ProcessesT(p,p)T,T(p,He3)n,T(p,d)D, andT(p→,p^)Tfrom 13 to 20 MeV

Abstract

Differential cross sections have been measured with absolute accuracies of about 1.0% and relative accuracies of about 0.7% using a tritium gas target with thin foil windows and a silicon surface-barrier detector telescope in conjunction with an on-line computer for mass identification and data handling. The angular scattering distributions for $\mathrm{T}\mathrm{}(p,p)\mathrm{}\mathrm{T}$, $\mathrm{T}\mathrm{}(p,d)\mathrm{}\mathrm{D}$, and $\mathrm{T}(p,{}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{He})n$, and the proton asymmetries of $\mathrm{T}(\overrightarrow{\mathrm{p}},\hat{p})\mathrm{T}$ were measured at a proton laboratory energy of 13.600 MeV. In addition, differential cross sections for $\mathrm{T}\mathrm{}(p,p)\mathrm{}\mathrm{T}$ were measured at energies of 16.230 and 19.480 MeV to provide supporting data for existing mass-4 studies at these energies.