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THEORETICAL investigations of the interaction of protons and neutrons have been given by Wigner, Heisenberg and Major ana. A very valuable check on their conclusions is provided by the study of the scattering cross-section of the hydrogen nucleus for neutrons of various energies. Cross-sections have been measured for neutrons of low energies (a few volts) by Fermi and his collaborators1; for the photo-neutrons from heavy hydrogen (energy about 250 k.v.) by Goldhaber2; and for the neutrons obtained by bombarding carbon with heavy hydrogen (600–1,200 k.v.) by Tuve and Hafstad3. Dunning4 also gives a value for the fast portion of the continuous spectrum of radon-beryllium neutrons, of which the average effective scattering energy probably lies in the region of 3–4 m.e.v.
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Goldhaber, NATURE, 137, 824 (1936).
Tuve and Hafstad, Phys. Rev., 50, 490 (1936).
Dunning, Phys. Rev., 45, 586 (1934).
Bonner and Brubaker, Phys. Rev., 49, 19 (1936); and Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 148, 623 (1935).
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BOOTH, E., HURST, C. Scattering of Neutrons by Protons. Nature 138, 1011 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381011a0
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