Interaction of 6- to 14-Mev Deuterons with Helium Three and Tritium

Abstract

The angular distributions of the cross sections for the $\mathrm{T}(d, n){\mathrm{He}}^{4}$ and ${\mathrm{He}}^{3}(d, p){\mathrm{He}}^{4}$ reactions have been measured at five incident deuteron energies between 6 and 14 Mev. The data have been fitted with Legendre expansions. A search for excited states in ${\mathrm{He}}^{4}$ near 22 Mev and for evidence of the formation of ${\mathrm{H}}^{4}$ gave negative results.