The High Energy Charged Particles from Targets Bombarded by 190-Mev Deuterons

An investigation has been made of the angle and energy distributions of the high energy charged particles which emerge from beryllium, carbon, and uranium nuclei bombarded by 190-Mev deuterons. The results indicate that the yields can be explained as primarily due to two kinds of processes; nucleon-nucleon interactions, and stripping. Under this assumption, the total stripping cross section has been determined to be 0.35±0.03 barn for the lighter elements and 2.6±0.4 barns for uranium. These values suggest an $A^{\frac{2}{3}}$ dependence for this cross section.