The formation of the compound nucleus

✍ Scribed by V.F. Weisskopf

• Book ID: 104162431
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1956
• Weight: 387 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8914
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8914(56)90052-0

✦ Synopsis

Recently a number of authors (B. Cohen, N. Rosen 13)) also reported irregularities in the distribution of protons emerging from nuclear reactions. Sometimes their number is larger and their energy lower, than the Coulomb barrier would allow. These and similar effects are poorly understood and indicate that nuclear reactions, particularily with charged particles, occur frequently in the surface region.

The increasing amount of experimental knowledge about nuclear reactions has shown that the mechanism of energy exchange within the nucleus is quite complicated and is less amenable to a simple statistical description than we were previously led to believe.