Excited States ofV51andCr53

The region of excitation in ${\mathrm{V}}^{51}$ up to 4.12 Mev has been investigated through studies of the inelastic scattering of protons. In this region of excitation, thirty-five excited states were found. The low-lying excited states of ${\mathrm{Cr}}^{53}$ were investigated through the ${\mathrm{Cr}}^{52}(d, p){\mathrm{Cr}}^{53}$ and the ${\mathrm{Mn}}^{55}(d, \alpha ){\mathrm{Cr}}^{53}$ reactions. The ground-state $Q$ values for these reactions are 5.720±0.006 and 8.275±0.008 Mev, respectively. The first two excited states in ${\mathrm{Cr}}^{53}$ are at 0.565 and 1.008 Mev. In these studies, the bombarding beam was provided by an electrostatic accelerator, and the reaction products were analyzed with a broad-range magnetic spectrograph.