THE PHOTOPROTONS EMITTED FROM OXYGEN-16 NUCLEI

Abstract

The photographic plate method has been used to study photoprotons emitted from oxygen gas exposed to bremsstrahlung of maximum energies 30, 35, and 70 Mev. The proton energy distributions above 5 Mev. show maxima corresponding to peaks in the (γ, p) excitation function at 20.7, 21.9, and 24.0 Mev. The proton angular distributions are anisotropic, in general agreement with a sin2θ function, but the high-energy protons exhibit a degree of asymmetry about the 90° angle which may be due to a small electric-quadrupole interference effect.