ISSN:
1573-8205
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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Physics
Notes:
Synopsis In the past few years slow neutron spectrometers of greatly improved resolving power have been developed at many laboratories throughout the world. During the same period advances in techniques of data analysis have aided in producing the information now available on hundreds of neutron resonances. The manner in which the parameters of these resonances give valuable information on nuclear structure will be described. The experimental findings will be reviewed and particular emphasis paid to their bearing on current theoretical nuclear models. The following aspects will be emphasized. 1) The radiation widths of nuclear energy levels and their relationship to theoretical transition probabilities. 2) The size distributions of neutron widths of levels and recent theoretical treatments of these distributions. 3) The average spacings of levels for different nuclei as well as the apparent non-random distribution of spacings for individual nuclei. 4) The probability of compound nucleus formation, or strength function, compared to recent calculations based on the cloudy crystal nuclear model. 5) Recent determinations of the nuclear radius at high and low neutron energies.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01480908
