THE ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION OF γ-RAYS FROM Mn54 ORIENTED IN ANTIFERROMAGNETIC CoCl2.6H2O

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1332-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Daniels ◽  
D. J. Griffiths

The angular distribution of γ-rays from Mn54 nuclei, included as an impurity in antiferromagnetic CoCl2.6H2O, was measured at temperatures between 0.03 °K and 0.18 °K. Three γ-ray counters were placed, one each along the crystallographic a, b, and c axes, and the angular distribution was analyzed into a series of spherical harmonics. The aspheric component of the γ-ray distribution was found to be proportional to [Formula: see text], where θ and [Formula: see text], are polar co-ordinates; the polar axis is the crystallographic b axis, and the origin of [Formula: see text] is 46° from the a axis in the obtuse angle between the a and c axes. This result is discussed in terms of present knowledge of the antiferromagnetic ground state configuration of CoCl.6H2O and of present ideas of the mechanism of nuclear alignment in antiferromagnetic materials, but no satisfactory explanation is found.


1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 997-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Vaillancourt ◽  
P. Taras

The γ-ray decay of the 1612 keV level (τ = 6.38 ± 0.15 ns) in 37Ar has been analyzed in terms of a mixture of three multipoles. The data was obtained from the simultaneous measurement of the linear polarization and angular distribution of the decay γ rays, in coincidence with the neutrons emitted along the beam axis, the level being populated via the 34S(α, n)37Ar reaction at Eα = 10.5 MeV. The results definitively eliminate the possibility of the γ rays consisting of a mixture of three multipoles, thereby confirming the Jπ = 7/2− assignment to the level.



1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1496-1499 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Del Bianco ◽  
G. Kajrys

The differential cross section of the 3H(p,γ)4He reaction has been measured at the proton energies Ep = 0.46, 0.50, 0.62, 0.77, and 0.93 MeV. A thin 3H–Ti target has been used and the γ-rays have been detected by a 12.7 cm diameter × 15.2 cm long NaI(Tl) crystal rotating over the angular range θL = 0 to 135°. The 3H(p,γ)4He reaction is found to proceed through E1, M1, and E2 transitions, E1 transitions being predominant. The ratio of the γ-ray flux at θL = 0 and 90° is energy dependent and decreases from 0.017 ± 0.003 at Ep = 0.46 MeV to 0.0078 ± 0.006 at Ep = 0.93 MeV.



1955 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 441-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Bartholomew ◽  
F. Brown ◽  
H. E. Gove ◽  
A. E. Litherland ◽  
E. B. Paul

The yield and angular distribution of ground state γ-rays and of neutrons resulting from the proton bombardment of C14 have been studied for proton energies from 0.2 to 2.5 Mev. Assignments of spin and parity are made to most of the resonances observed in this range. A single particle proton state which may have isotopic spin 3/2 has been observed. The interference of this state, which has spin 1/2+, with a neighboring state of the same spin and parity is observed in the total yield of the ground state γ-ray. Three states below the neutron threshold which have been observed previously in the N14(d, p)N15 reaction are also observed in the C14(p, γ)N15 reaction. The N14(n, p)C14 cross section at thermal energies can be accounted for by a resonance observed in this experiment, but another resonance below the neutron threshold must be assumed to account for the thermal (n, n) and (n, γ) cross sections.



1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 1286-1294 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Pilt ◽  
R. H. Spear ◽  
R. V. Elliott ◽  
D. T. Kelly ◽  
J. A. Kuehner ◽  
...  

The 18O(α,nγ) reaction at α-particle bombarding energies of 5.2 and 6.1 MeV was used to study the levels in 21Ne below 4 MeV excitation. A combination of γ-ray angular distribution and linear polarization measurements using a single crystal Ge(Li) polarimeter confirmed the spins and parities of the 1747 and 2867 keV states to be 7/2+ and 9/2+ respectively and assigned negative parity to the J = 3/2 level at 3663 keV and J = 5/2 level at 3886 keV. The state at 3735 keV was shown to have Jπ = 5/2+. Values of the multipole mixing ratios of γ rays deexciting these states were found to be consistent with previous measurements. A γ–γ coincidence experiment revealed the existence of a (1.8 ± 0.7)% decay branch of the 3886 keV level to the 2790 keV level. The results are interpreted in terms of the Nilsson model. Evidence for the existence of a Kπ = 1/2− band based on a hole in the 1p1/2 shell is given.



1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 827-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Lam ◽  
A. E. Litherland ◽  
J. J. Simpson

The 1459-keV level of 19F was populated by the 19F(p,p′γ)19F reaction at a proton energy of 2.78 MeV. The E2/M1 mixing ratio for the 1459 → 110 keV transition was determined to be [Formula: see text] from a combination of the γ-ray angular distribution and linear polarization and the nuclear lifetime. The γ-ray angular distribution was measured with a coaxial Ge(Li) detector and the γ-ray linear polarization with a planar Ge(Li) detector. The corresponding E2 and M1 transition strengths for a lifetime of 0.084 ± 0.020 ps are found to be [Formula: see text] and 0.10 ± 0.03 W.u. respectively. They are in good agreement with the particle–hole calculations of Benson and Flowers. The branching ratios of the 1459-keV level agree well with those of Poletti et al. The γ-ray transitions from the 1459-keV level provide a good example for demonstrating the usefulness of a single crystal Ge(Li) polarimeter.



1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1133-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Daniels

The angular distribution of γ-radiation from an assembly of nuclei oriented by the magnetic h.f.s. method can be very much modified by interactions between the radioactive ions and other paramagnetic ions in the crystal. In order to calculate the effect of these interactions, an operator Γ is derived which represents the angular distribution of γ-rays from a radioactive nucleus. The angular distribution at any temperature is given by Spur(Γρ), where ρ is the statistical matrix [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] being the Hamiltonian for the whole crystal. For a high temperature approximation, ρ is expanded in powers of 1/T. It is found that, for alignment by the magnetic h.f.s. method, the first term which contains interaction parameters is that in 1/T4, and an expression is given for the contribution of interactions to this term.At very low temperatures, perturbation theory is used to estimate the effect of interactions on the lowest nuclear energy state, and hence on the angular distribution of γ-rays. It is found that, if an external magnetic field is applied along a principal axis of the g-tensor of the radioactive ions, interactions have no influence on the angular distribution of γ-rays in the limit of large fields. It is also shown that Bleaney's restriction, that for a successful nuclear orientation experiment the broadening of the levels should be less than the hyperfine splitting, is not necessary in this case.



1997 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth. W. Digel ◽  
Stanley D. Hunter ◽  
Reshmi Mukherjee ◽  
Eugéne J. de Geus ◽  
Isabelle A. Grenier ◽  
...  

EGRET, the high-energy γ-ray telescope on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, has the sensitivity, angular resolution, and background rejection necessary to study diffuse γ-ray emission from the interstellar medium (ISM). High-energy γ rays produced in cosmic-ray (CR) interactions in the ISM can be used to determine the CR density and calibrate the CO line as a tracer of molecular mass. Dominant production mechanisms for γ rays of energies ∼30 MeV–30 GeV are the decay of pions produced in collisions of CR protons with ambient matter and Bremsstrahlung scattering of CR electrons.



2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
N. Fotiades ◽  
Et al.

The high-spin structure of 193Hg was investigated by in-beam γ-ray spectro­scopic techniques. The tandem accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory, U. K., was used to populate excited states of 193Hg through the reaction 150Nd(48Ca,5n)193Hg at a beam energy of 213 MeV and the EUROGAM detector array was used to de­ tect the γ-rays emitted by the deexciting nuclei. The normal level scheme has been further extended and a new band has been observed. In addition two new ΔI=1 structures of competing dipole and quadrupole transitions were found which will be discussed in detail.



Although the complete theory of the scattering of electrons by gas atoms must take into account the distortion of the incident and scattered waves by the atomic field, the exchange of electrons between the atom and the incident beam, and the disturbance of the atomic wave functions by the incident and scattered waves, a satisfactory explanation of the diffraction effects observed in the angular distribution of the elastically scattered electrons is obtained simply by considering the distortion of the incident wave by the undisturbed field of the atom. The scattering at large angles will then mainly depend upon the nature of the atomic field at the point in the atom where the potential energy of the incident electrons is equal to their kinetic energy. Now the magnitude and gradient of the field at any point within the atom at a distance r from the centre is determined mainly by the nuclear charge and the screening constants of the electrons within the radius r , and hence the nature of the field at a point well within the outer electron shell will be similar for atoms whose electronic structures differ only in the constitution of the outer shell.



1998 ◽  
pp. 273-274
Author(s):  
V. B. Bhatia ◽  
S. Mishra ◽  
N. Panchapakesan
Keyword(s):  
Γ Rays ◽  


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