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The Radioactivity Produced by the Bombardment of Lithium with Deuterons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. C. Bower
Affiliation:
Emmanuel College
D. P. R. Petrie
Affiliation:
Trinity College

Extract

In an investigation of the disintegration of by protons, resulting in the emission of three α-particles, Dee and Gilbert* found that the observed distributions of ranges and angles of these particles could be explained by assuming that one α-particle is first ejected, leaving a short-lived, excited nucleus which then decomposes into two more α-particles. The half-life of this excited beryllium nucleus was estimated to be about 10–21 sec.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1937

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