Elastic and Inelastic Collisions of 55 MeV Proton with 4He

• Published in: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Vol. 19; no. 11; p. 2004
• Main Authors: Hayakawa, Satio, Horikawa, Naoaki, Kajikawa, Ryoichi, Kikuchi, Ken, Kobayakawa, Hisashi, Matsuda, Kazuhisa, Nagata, Shinobu, Sumi, Yoshio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo The Physical Society of Japan 01-01-1964
• ISSN: 0031-9015; 1347-4073
• DOI: 10.1143/jpsj.19.2004

Elastic and inelastic collisions induced by 55 MeV protons with 4He nuclei were investigated by use of the δE-E counter detecting protons and deuterons, and the solid counter detecting recoil 4He and 3He nuclei. The differential cross sections at 15°-160° were measured for the elastic scattering and for the inelastic process 4He(p; d)3He, as shown in Fig. 6. The total cross section for the latter is 40 mb. The total cross section for all inelastic events were estimated from the continuum portion in the energy spectra of protons as 50-80 mb. The existence of an excited state in 4He at the excitation of about 22 MeV was indicated by searching an anomalous peak in the energy spectra of protons.