Solar Flare Tritium in a Recovered Satellite
- 15 September 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 123 (6) , 1935-1936
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.123.1935
Abstract
Tritium and argon-37 were measured in samples of the Discoverer XVII satellite. The tritium content was unusually high, the maximum value being 163±2 tritium decays/kg min. The ratio of tritium to argon-37 atoms was 2500±300 in an iron sample and larger than 9000 in a lead sample. The tritium activity decreased rapidly with depth. The tritium content is too large by a factor of more than one hundred to be explained by nuclear interactions induced by incident protons or alpha particles. The tritium must result from a flux of incident tritons stopped in the material.Keywords
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