Successive Neutron Capture in Gold

15 July 1950

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 79 (2) , 275-277
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.79.275

Abstract

Transitions corresponding to 159 and 209 kev have been observed in neutron-activated gold. They have been observed to decay with a half-life of 3.3 days and have been ascribed to

{Au}^{199}

, which is formed by a process of successive neutron capture from

{Au}^{197}

. The thermal neutron capture cross section of

{Au}^{198}

has been estimated to be of the order of

10^{4}

barns.

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