Radioactivity Induced by Neutrons: a Thermodynamic Approach to Radiative Capture

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2005-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508049v1

Am. J. Phys., 74, 7 (2006), pp. 614-620

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

14 pages; submitted to "American Journal of Physics"

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.2198884

When Enrico Fermi discovered slow neutrons, he accounted for their great efficiency in inducing radioactivity by merely mentioning the well-known scattering cross-section between neutrons and protons. He did not refer to capture cross-section, at that early stage. It is put forward that a thermodynamic approach to neutron-proton radiative capture then widely debated might underlie his early accounts. Fermi had already met with a similar approach, and repeatedly used it.

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