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Abstract:
Experimental reaction yields have been determined for various types of photonuclear reactions, induced in 52 elements by means of Bremsstrahlung irradiation with maximum energies ranging from 30 to 72 MeV, and of detection of the resultant activities with a lithium-drifted germanium detector. From the results obtained, sensitivities in photon-activation analysis were evaluated and the reactivity of high-energy photons with nuclei in a wide range of atomic number is discussed. Some nuclear considerations in photon-activation analysis, involving the relative probability of forming each product as a result of the (gamma,xnyp) reactions are also given.
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