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- Title
Absorption of γ-Rays Measured by their Photo-effect in Beryllium.
- Authors
ROTBLAT, J.
- Abstract
IT results from recent determinations of atomic masses, that in the photo-nuclear effect of radium C γ-rays in beryllium, only the hardest groups, namely, 2.2 × 106 eV., 2.0 × 106 eV. and 1.8 × 106 eV., can be efficient. The absorption of these γ-rays measured by the number of neutrons produced in beryllium should therefore be very nearly exponential without any preliminary filtering. However, Gentner1 has found that the absorption curve obtained by this method exhibits a flat maximum for small thicknesses of absorbing material (lead or aluminium) and then decreases, at first with a coefficient corresponding to 0.9 × 106 eV; and afterwards more slowly. Gentner interprets these results by assuming that the observed maximum corresponds to the maximum intensity of the 0.9 × 106 eV. rays developed by the Compton effect from the primary rays, and that this quantum energy represents twice the energy necessary for extracting a neutron from the beryllium nucleus.
- Publication
Nature, 1937, Vol 139, Issue 3527, p963
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/139963a0