NUCLEAR DEALIGNMENT IN GASES

Zhu Shengyun，

M.H. Rafailovich，

C. Alonso-Arias，

S. Vajda，

G.D. Sprouse

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Vol.4, No.3

pp.147-150

Published in print 01 Aug 1993

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The nuclear dealignment is studied during the slowing down process and after thermolization in different gases by the time differential perturbed angular distribution method. A large fraction of the initial nuclear alignment following the nuclear reaction can be preserved in gases with large moments of inertia, but only a small fraction in monoatomic gases such as the noble gases. The plunger experiment shows that the nuclear dealignment occurs during the slowing down process and not after thermolization.

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