FKK ANALYSIS OF 14-MEV NEUTRON-INDUCED REACTIONS

The quantum mechanical theory of Feshbach, Kerman and Koonin has been applied to analyse neutron-induced reactions, particularly nucleon-emi ssion reactions at 14.1 MeV on V-51, Fe-56, Zr, Nb-93, Mo, and Sb. The analysis is carried out over the whole energy and angle range and aim s to account for all the reaction flux. An unambiguous method of isola ting the multistep direct component by taking the forward-backward dif ferences in the centre-of-mass system has been developed and used to o btain the average value for the strength V0 of the effective N-N inter action. This method has been applied to a wider range of nuclei in ord er to find the dependence of V0 on the target mass number.