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The Photonuclear Effect and the Complex Potential-Well Nuclear Model

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THE recent success of the complex potential-well nuclear model applied to neutron and proton scattering from complex nuclei1–3 led me to investigate this model for the photonuclear process.

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DAVIDSON, J. The Photonuclear Effect and the Complex Potential-Well Nuclear Model. Nature 176, 649–650 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176649a0

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