Gamma rays resulting from nonelastic processes of 14·2 MeV neutrons with sodium, magnesium, silicon, sulphur, titanium, chromium and iron

Gamma rays resulting from the interaction of 14·2 MeV neutrons with ²³Na, ²⁴Mg, ²⁸Si, ³²S, ⁴⁸Ti, ⁵²Cr and ⁵⁶Fe were investigated. The incident neutrons were produced by means of the T(d, n)⁴He reaction. The associated-particle time-of-flight technique was used to discriminate between the neutrons and the gamma rays resulting from the nonelastic scattering processes. The differential gamma-ray production cross-sections were measured for gamma rays with energies of 0·44, 0·64, 1·27, 1·63 MeV for ²³Na; for a gamma ray with energy of 1·37 MeV for ²⁴Mg; for a gamma ray with energy of 1·78 MeV for ²⁸Si; for gamma rays with energies of 1·27, 2·06, 2·24 MeV for ³²S; for gamma rays with energies of 0·99 and 1·31 MeV for ⁴⁸Ti; for gamma rays with energies of 0·93, 1·33, 1·43 MeV for ⁵²Cr; for gamma rays with energies of 0·85 and 124 MeV for ⁵⁶Fe. The integrated gamma ray production cross-sections were also deduced.